Now, the second lady knows that she wants to use a bitter trick to win the old lady's sympathy, so that the old lady can expose this matter, which is absolutely impossible.

She didn't continue to kowtow, she only knelt straight and straight, bowing her head in shame: "But Sister Zhu is still young after all, and it was her daughter-in-law who didn't teach her well, so she begged the old lady to spare her this time, and her daughter-in-law must discipline her well in the future and never let her make such a mistake again." ”

"Since you know she's wrong, you should teach her a lesson. It's my idea to lock up the second girl, do you have to disobey me? ”

"Daughter-in-law doesn't dare!"

"So you don't dare." Old Madam Ge sneered: "Since that's the case, I'll let you choose for yourself." If you feel sorry for your daughter, go to the small Buddha hall now and take the second girl back. ”

The second lady was overjoyed, and suddenly raised her head, facing the mocking eyes of the old lady Shangge: "If you take the second girl back, I won't dare to take care of you and your second room in the future." If you still recognize me as a mother-in-law, and think that the second girl is wrong, and I should teach her a lesson, you will obediently go back to the room, and you are not allowed to see the second girl, and I will not blame the past for today's incident. It's up to you to decide! ”

The second lady didn't expect that Old Lady Ge would be so ruthless, and she also understood that in the future, she would no longer be able to do whatever she wanted in front of the old lady as before, and she would never even be able to win the old lady's favor.

Although she knew this, at this moment, she had to give up her daughter. There is no other reason, if she chooses to pick up Gu Chongzhu back at this moment and disobeys the old lady, they may not have a way to live in the Gu family in the second room.

"Old lady, today's incident is that the daughter-in-law is not strict in discipline, which caused Sister Zhu to do such a wrong thing." The second lady knelt deep on the ground, and her voice was as condensed as the frozen river water for thirty-nine days: "The old lady is old, she shouldn't have to work hard for such a trivial matter, but now she taught her a good lesson because she felt sorry for her granddaughter, and the daughter-in-law was ashamed before it was too late, how could she be that kind of ignorant person?" You have learned a good lesson, after this incident, I believe that Sister Zhu will definitely have a long memory, and she will never dare again. ”

These words are really beautiful, and it can be seen that the second lady's mind is also turning very quickly.

But Old Madam Ge is not as easy to fool as before: "So, don't you blame me, an old woman, for being nosy?" ”

The second lady's hand pinched her palm and forced a smile: "The old lady said that she was laughing, you will discipline Sister Zhu if you love her, and your daughter-in-law will be angry before she is happy." ”

"That's what people say!" Old Madam Ge smiled comfortably: "If I don't ask, Sister Zhu is crooked, and it will be the scourge of our Gu family in the future." I stewarded her like this for her good. Sister Zhu is young and ignorant and will blame me for being normal, if you sensible adults also blame me, then it is a wolf's heart and dog's lungs. ”

The second lady was so angry that she trembled, but she still smiled and said, "No, Sister Zhu is also grateful to the old lady." ”

"Alright, you get up." Old Madam Ge said: "It's cold on the ground, it's frozen carefully." ”

"It's still the old lady who loves me." The second lady grinned, got up and said, "It's getting late, old lady, I'll serve you to sleep." ”

"That's it, you all go back." Old Madam Ge also made a pretense that nothing had happened and said, "It's enough to have Mama Su serve me." ”

The two concubines said goodbye and walked out of Anrong Courtyard together.

When they arrived at the fork in the road, the second lady did not hide the disgust in her heart, and turned around and left without even saying a word.

Today she has suffered such a big loss and lost such a big face, in front of the eldest lady, she can no longer be like before.

The skin of the face has been torn, there is no need to pretend anymore!

Seeing that the second lady was walking in pain because she had knelt for too long, the eldest lady felt happy, and finally vomited out her anger after so many years.

She smiled and said to Gu Yu: "Look at the big moon, Ming'er must be a good sunny day." ”

Gu Yu poured: "Yes." The moon is so big, I don't even need this lamp. ”

The master and servant looked at each other and smiled, and walked towards home.

And the second lady walked to the shade of the wall not far away, and stopped.

It's not that she's not smart, it's not that she's not scheming, it's just that she was used to forgetting the cruelty of the inner house by Mrs. Ge in the past.

She only knew that Mrs. Ge was her aunt before, loved her, spoiled her, and depended on her in everything. Today, she saw clearly that after marrying the second master, Mrs. Ge was no longer her aunt, but her mother-in-law, who would prevent her, beat her, scold her, and even harm her.

The second lady looked at the direction in which the eldest lady left, and there was hatred and poison in her eyes that could not be concealed.

The next day was the day when the people of the Ge family sent back gifts.

The Gu family was very lively, and the people of the Ge family came early.

The fourth master also took leave and did not go to Guanglu Temple to take up his post.

Gu Chongyang practiced calligraphy in the Begonia Courtyard, his ears didn't hear anything outside the window, and he didn't care about who came from the Ge family at all.

"Miss, Qingbo is here." Dan Xin said: "Do you want him to come in?" Or wait until you're done with this one? ”

"Let him in."

Dan Xin led Qingbo in.

Gu Chongyang didn't raise his head, he just lowered his head and practiced calligraphy: "Today, the people of the Ge family sent a return gift, you don't serve by the fourth master's side, what are you doing here with me?" ”

She is still young, but she already has a bit of grace when she speaks, Qingbo put away her contemptuous thoughts, and hurriedly lowered her hands and said: "It's the new lady's mother's family who is here, and the fourth master asked the young lady to go over to meet someone." ”

"Joke!" Gu Chongyang snorted coldly: "Ask me to meet the guest, why is it not the mother-in-law of the inner house, but a small servant in the outer courtyard to summon me?" How come I don't know when our Gu family has changed the rules? ”

Qingbo was young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and after listening to Gu Chongyang's rhetorical question, he was startled: "Yes, the fourth master asked the little one to come." ”

"The fourth master doesn't know the rules of the inner house, don't you know either?"

"Yes, it's the villain's fault, it's the villain's fault."

Qingbo apologized on the one hand, and secretly scolded Bibo in his heart, no wonder he was reluctant to come and called himself to come, it turned out that the fourth lady was so difficult.

Seeing Qingbo bowing his head and being speechless, nervous, Gu Chongyang didn't want to ask him about it.

It's just a little talker, and it's really not interesting to embarrass him.

"The fourth master was small yesterday, and today the people of the Ge family returned the gift, which is a great joy."

The word "great joy" was resounding on her side, and everyone in the room could hear her gritting her teeth.

"I am filial to my mother, and I still have white on my body, so I should not appear on such an occasion. It doesn't hurt if I go, but if I do, it's not good. Gu Chongyang said: "For the sake of the fourth master, I still won't go." ”

Qingbo dared to refute, nodded yes: "Yes, yes." ”

Seeing that he was standing still, Gu Chongyang said, "Don't stand, go and report to the fourth master." ”

Qingbo was like an amnesty, and he ran away as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

After half a cup of tea, Danxin hurriedly said again: "The fourth master is here, looking at that face, it seems to be very unhappy." ”

"It's fine." Gu Chongyang's expression was unmoved, she put away the pen, pointed to the notebook and said, "Put the things away." ”

The fourth master has already walked in.

"Chongyang, what's the matter with you?" The fourth master didn't say a word when he entered the door, and asked directly: "Qingbo said that you don't want to go?" ”

"Yes." Gu Chongyang stood there in an orderly manner, lowered his hand and said, "You haven't heard of it, Qingbo is not wrong, I don't want to go." ”

She didn't look up because she didn't want to see this person, but also because there was anger and unwillingness in her eyes that she couldn't hide.

She stood there honestly, quietly, and the anger in the fourth master's heart was not easy to spread.

"Why don't you want to go? Do you have something going on today? ”

"Yes." Gu Chongyang nodded and said, "I want to copy the Sutra of Past Lives and offer it to the Buddha to pray for my mother." ”

The fourth master couldn't help but pause, he lowered his voice, as if he was suppressing the anger in his heart: "It is very important to copy the "Sutra of Death", but it will not be finished for a while, you and I will go with me to meet the people of the Ge family, and when you see it, you will come back immediately, and it will not delay your copying of the scriptures." ”

"Why do you have to let me go?" Gu Chongyang suddenly raised his head and looked at the fourth master: "Do you think that the people of the Ge family are more important, and it is more important to make face for Ge Bilian, and my mood is not important, and copying scriptures for my mother is not important?" ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!" The fourth old man pulled his face and lectured her: "Miss Ge is your elder, and when you enter the door, you are your stepmother, how can you call her by name and surname, it's really rude!" How do you learn the rules? ”

"Fourth Master!" Gu Chongyang interrupted him and raised his voice: "Do you also want to reprimand me for bad rules?" Are you going to say that my mother didn't teach me well? When my mother was alive, I had good rules, but now my bad rules are due to your father's negligence, please don't put the blame on my mother at every turn, okay? She's dead, and the dead are greater, so you can let her be buried in peace, okay? ”

"You!" The fourth old man was so angry that his eyelids trembled, and he glared at Gu Chongyang.

Gu Chongyang was not afraid and looked at him.

In order for Ge Bilian to have a light on his face, he personally came to invite himself, which is really disgusting!

This man has forgotten all about his love with his mother! Just like in her previous life, her stepmother took the power of housekeeping as soon as she entered the door, and she was a dignified young lady, pinched in the palm of her hand, and let Ge Bilian rub it round and flatten. In her previous life, she never wanted to live again.

Anyway, no matter what he does, he won't pity himself, so she still lives a little more freely, and she can't do it with a well-behaved daughter.

"Good, good, good!" The eye contact between the father and daughter ended with the defeat of the fourth master.

"You are truly my good daughter! Shen really raised a good daughter for me! ”

He threw down the sentence angrily and walked away.

The fourth old man left angrily. In the Green Summer Courtyard, the second lady also stared at the thin girl kneeling below with anger on her face: "...... Cheap seeds, what are you, I have delicious food and drink for you, and you actually collaborated with outsiders to murder Sister Zhu. I'm so blind that I'm going to keep you as a scourge until now, and I should have killed you in the first place. ”

"Mother......" The thin Gu Chongzhi knelt on the ground, as delicate as a pear blossom beaten by the rain: "I really don't know about the second sister." I really don't know, please believe me, I don't know if the big sister and the fourth sister will ......"

"Don't call me Mother! That dead ghost is your mother. The second lady scolded this viciously, looking at Gu Chongzhi's weak and pitiful appearance, she aroused a wave of anger again, and kicked at Gu Chongzhi with her foot up.

Gu Chongzhi didn't dare to hide, because she knew that if she hid, it would anger her mother-in-law, and what awaited her was a more cruel punishment. She knelt upright and took the kick hard.

The second lady was angry last night, and she felt sorry for Gu Chongzhu's sin in the small Buddha hall, she didn't close her eyes almost all night, and her anger was gathered on this foot, and she used all her strength to kick Gu Chongzhi's heart hard.

Gu Chongzhi only felt a sharp pain in his heart, and his eyes were full of gold stars, and he was unstable and fell to the ground.

My heart really hurts!

The pain made her cover her wound and tremble.

The second lady felt a little relieved, and scolded again: "Hugh wants to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, nasty embryos, make this demon and demon look to show anyone, don't get up and kneel quickly." ”

"Yes......" Gu Chongzhi only felt a tingling pain from the wound, so painful that she didn't even have the strength to speak, and she tried to climb for a long time, but she couldn't get up.

The second lady looked unhappy, grabbed Gu Chongzhi's hair, and dragged her up fiercely.

The pain in her heart has not been resolved, and the pain in her head has come again, Gu Chongzhi feels that her whole body is hurting, but she is a stubborn character, and she will never let herself cry in front of her mother-in-law, but just plead: "Mother, you spare me, I get up, I will get up ......"

She spoke in a hurry, couldn't help coughing, and suddenly felt the blood surging in her heart, a fishy sweetness in her throat and eyes, and a mouthful of blood spit out with a "wow".

Scarlet blood spilled on the ground, the second lady was startled at first, and then a flash of happiness flashed in her heart.

If this little prostitute/woman dies because of this, then it will be very happy.

She let out this evil breath, and her heart was relieved, so she sat back in her chair, ready to take a sip of hot tea and rest for a while before torturing this nasty/nasty seed.

Grandma Sun's suddenly raised voice suddenly came from the door: "Second master, you're back." ”

The second lady was shocked, and glanced at Gu Chongzhi, who was lying on the ground half-dead, and was a little flustered.

However, this panic was restored when the second master lifted the curtain and came in.

"What's going on?" He didn't go home for a few days, and when he came back, he saw the maid kneeling on the ground with her head bowed, and the lady criing with her handkerchief covered.

The second master couldn't help frowning: "Under the New Year, how unlucky." ”

"Sir!" The second lady stood up as if she had just seen her husband, regardless of the presence of someone, and threw herself into the arms of the second master: "You can be regarded as coming back, if you don't come back, our mother will be killed." ”

"What's going on?" The second old man looked at the second lady carefully.

"The old lady didn't know what was going on, so she suddenly took me and asked me if I knew anything about you embezzling money from the public school outside...... I was so scared that I lost all my souls. The second lady said and began to cry again.

This sentence scared the second master very much: "Madam, what you said is true?" ”

He grabbed the second lady's arm and glared at her in fear.

"Yes, how dare I lie to you about such a big thing." The second lady said again: "Who knew that the third girl and the big girl and the fourth girl together went to the old lady to sue Sister Zhu'er, and the old lady couldn't say anything from my mouth, so she took Sister Zhu as a raft and locked her up in the small Buddha hall, which has been all night, and my heart is like roasting on the fire." ”

"Good! I actually raised such a thing to eat inside and out. When the second master heard this, he was almost angry, and he didn't ask anything, walked to Gu Chongzhi's side, and kicked her in the back.

Gu Chongzhi snorted and was kicked down again.

"Master, don't be angry, the child is disobedient, it's all because I, the mother-in-law, didn't teach her well, I'll teach her slowly, don't be angry." The second lady stepped forward, stopped the second master, and coaxed and persuaded: "Now our family is counting on the master, if you are angry, how can our mothers live." If you want to fight, just hit me, don't be angry. ”

"Whew!" The second master was too angry just now, and now that he came back to his senses, he realized that he kicked too hard, but the more this happened, the more fierce his mouth became: "This girl can't be beaten if she doesn't fight, how did her aunt die, you don't know." If she doesn't teach her well, if she becomes that kind of person, won't she lose the face of our Gu family for several lifetimes. ”

Gu Chongzhi was only twelve years old, and he was beaten so badly just now, and he was so seriously injured that he held back his tears. Later, he was misunderstood by his father and beaten, but he didn't say a word.

But at this moment, this forbearant girl couldn't help crying because of the second master's words. She wept not for herself, but for her dead birth mother.

The second master was upset for a while, and scolded: "Cry! What do you cry about? I mourned here early in the morning, and the reason why I have been so unlucky recently is because you cried. ”

When Gu Chongzhi heard this, his heart hurt even more, not only did he not stop, but his crying became louder than just now.

When the second lady saw it, she felt a burst of happiness in her heart, but she pretended to be distressed and helpless on her face: "Third girl, your father was reluctant to move a finger of you in the past, but today he kicked you because he was very angry, you must not hold a grudge against him." Go back, and I'll persuade your father." ”

Seeing Gu Chongzhi lying on the ground and thinking about it but had no strength, she sneered and said loudly: "Hongling, Sydney, why don't you come in and help your young lady go back." ”

Hongling Sydney has been guarding under the corridor with fear, and at this moment, when she heard this call, she hurriedly came in, and her eyes didn't dare to look around, and when she saw Gu Chongzhi lying on the ground and couldn't even get up, the tears of the two people poured out at once.

They tried their best not to cry, so they only picked up Gu Chongzhi from left to right and left.

Out of the door of the Green Summer Courtyard, Hongling cried: "Miss, how are you?" Where do you hurt? ”

Gu Chongzhi reluctantly said, "Don't ...... Speak, I'm fine, help me...... Get back. ”

Sydney also shed tears in distress: "The young lady in the capital, only our young lady's life is the hardest, which is the young lady, it is worse than the life of the next person." It is difficult to escape a severe beating for three days, and it is common to be scolded and starved, and there is endless embroidery work. Miss, what kind of life are you living! ”

When Gu Chongzhi heard this, tears flowed in his eyes. Three hundred and sixty days a year, the wind, frost and sword are strictly pressing. She was so bitter in her heart, she didn't want to live at all.

The two maids helped Gu Chongzhi back to the Lilac Courtyard, and after settling down, Hongling went to invite Gu Chongyang.

Now the Gu family is really good to their own young lady, and only the fourth young lady Gu Chongyang is good.

After listening to Hongling crying, Gu Chongyang followed her to the Lilac Courtyard on the spot.

When he saw Gu Chongzhi, Gu Chongyang couldn't help but be shocked: "Third sister, you ......"

Gu Chongzhi's cheeks were high and swollen on both sides, and his originally peach blossom-like face was red and swollen, with faint scratches. Her lips were pale, her eyes were dull, and her forehead was faintly blue, as if she was enduring pain.

She must still have wounds on her body.

In the past, Gu Chongyang only felt that her life was sad, but now she found out that Gu Chongzhi's life was probably more than ten times more painful than her.

She thought that she had given Gu Chongzhu no face and let Gu Chongzhu be punished, but she helped Gu Chongzhi to take a bad breath, but she didn't know that she was not helping her, but harming her.

A thick self-blame surged in her heart, and her eyes couldn't help but get wet: "Third sister, you have suffered, this is all mine, I hurt you." ”

After resting for a while, Gu Chongzhi's spirit was much better than when he first came back: "Fourth sister, don't be sad. I used to be beaten a lot, and I was beaten as hard as I am today, two or three times a year, so I don't blame you. I'm used to it. ”

I'm used to it.

These few short words made Gu Chongyang feel distressed for a while.

"Don't speak." Gu Chongyang grabbed her hand and gave her a pulse, and her heart couldn't help sinking: "Third sister, your heart is injured, and there is blood accumulation." But don't worry, I'll help you heal. You are young, take care of it, and you can raise it well in the future. ”

Gu Chongzhi nodded meekly: "There is a fourth sister Lao." ”

Gu Chongyang suddenly felt that she seemed to have a sense of sadness more than death.

Gu Chongyang felt something, shook Gu Chongzhi's hand and comforted: "Third sister, don't be discouraged, you will be thirteen years old when you turn the new year." After another year or two, you can get married. ”

Gu Chongyang didn't say the rest of the words, I believe Gu Chongzhi can understand, and after getting married, he can escape from this demon cave.

"Really?" Gu Chongzhi didn't feel relieved, but sighed and said confusedly: "Can you change this kind of life if you get married?" ”

Gu Chongyang didn't know either.

In her previous life, she thought that if she married He Runnian, she would be happy and carefree, but she didn't expect it......

Let's go! Think about what those do.

"Absolutely." Gu Chongyang smiled: "You are so beautiful, if I were a man, I would definitely hold you in the palm of my hand when I married you." Good sister, trust me. ”

Gu Chongzhi was encouraged by the joy in her tone, and there was a bit of longing on her face: "If only there really was such a day." ”

The two sisters fantasized about marrying and leaving the Gu family, but a few days later, there was suddenly news that they would be drafted in the spring of next year. All ladies over the age of thirteen and under the age of seventeen must run for election, and this news has caused panic among all the people in the capital who have a daughter of the right age.