The family of Changfang returned to the East Warm Pavilion of Qingyi Hall to prepare for the New Year. Yuyi explained that all the porches were keyed, gave a holiday to the people who were not on duty, sat on the soft couch with Gu Yao, and watched the four sons rub oil around the hairy cute little daughter on the big kang opposite.

Gu Ci, who resisted and was incompetent, simply buried his white-haired head in Gu Ao's arms, and refused to lift it up no matter how funny Gu Yi was, which provoked Gu Yi to directly reach out and pull her waist out, so frightened that she screamed repeatedly, "Third brother, save me!" ”

Gu Chong followed the little white hair on Gu Ci's cuffs with one hand, and wanted to stop Gu Yi with one hand to rescue his sister, but Gu Yi turned his hand and stuffed Gu Yi into his arms. Bajie under the kang roared and stood up to look at Gu Ci while turning in circles, and the five people and one dog made a mess. made Yuyi laugh out of tears, and Gu Yao almost spilled the tea in the cup.

When the mother had seen enough, she wiped her tears and taught her son: "Don't make trouble, it's so warm in the house, don't take off your jacket for Ah Luan, it's time to sweat." ”

Several brothers took off their robes to wipe the sweat of Gu Ci, who was lying on the kang and stood upright, and she complained weakly: "yes, why don't you come to the hero to save the beauty?" ”

Gu Yao burst out laughing and hugged her over, "I'll punish them for not eating meat tomorrow, okay?" ”

"I'll see it!"

Gu Chong probed her red face, "Little sister is really ruthless, I didn't bully you with Twelve." ”

"Yes! yes, yes, you're sitting together! ”

"Yo, follow Brother Yuan'er to class, and you know that you even sit?" Gu Xi's tone was quite sour.

"Of course!"

Gu Ao asked with a smile, "What do you do?" ”

"Sitting in a row is - sitting in rows, eating fruits, you come, I am one." Gu Ci pushed a plate of longan to Gu Yao's hand, took one to Yuyi, and then handed an apple to Gu Yi who smiled silently, "Little brother, you are not in the same stream, I will give you apples to eat!" ”

"Complicity?" The twins quit, and they obviously didn't help Xiao Qi, snatching her back to the kang and pinching her face and meat!

"Huh? Is that aiding and abetting? Acting for the Tiger? Complicit? In cahoots? ”

Gu Yi proudly threw a peanut into his mouth, "Ah Luan said it well!" Seventh brother loves you, such a word that does not distinguish between right and wrong. ”

"People don't! Master said it was unique! ”

was so troubled by his brothers, Gu Ci was tired, and was fed a piece of apple by Gu Chong, so he tilted Gu Chong's arm.

Gu Yao saw that she was starting to wilt, so he said, "It's been a long time, let's sleep first." ”

"Isn't it impossible to sleep during the New Year?"

Gu Yao smiled: "You are still a child, sleep for a while, and then get up to watch the fireworks when it is time." ”

"Don't my brothers sleep? Staying up late will not grow tall. ”

Yuyi couldn't help laughing, "Okay, a few of you can also lie on the kang with Ah Luan, otherwise you won't be able to worship your ancestors tomorrow." ”

"Mother, I'll accompany you!" The little padded jacket should always be intimate.

"No, your father and I will go out to wake up in a while, and if you are tired, you will squint for a while when you go to the west. Ah Luan obediently slept with his brothers. ”

It turned out that my father and mother were going to the world of two.

Gu Ci leaned back in the middle of the twins and fell asleep in seconds.

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Compared with the room in the long house, the people in the few rooms who stayed in the Sixi Hall were generally not very interested, and everyone drank tea quietly, waiting for Gu Pu's instructions.

The fifth old man crossed his feet and urged: "Dad, when will we go to the study to have a drink?" ”

"you! Just know how to drink! You bear-like ...... you have no prospects," Gu Pu scolded with a shaky face.

The fourth master immediately interrupted his tirade behind him, "Father! It's so late, you and your mother go to recuperate first? ”

Gu Pu glared, looked at the children and grandchildren in the hall, suddenly let out a sigh of relief, threw off his sleeves and walked out. Mrs. Fang followed without saying a word, and Aunt Liu took a step slower and left.

Aunt Fang didn't care about greeting the fifth master who was shrinking his head, "You'er, bring the children over for a while, relax and relax," and then glanced at the fifth lady, "I have something for you." ”

The fifth master immediately followed with his four sons, Gu Wenkai turned his head and called Gu Xiaoxi, "Eleventh sister, come here." Then he took her with one hand and walked out with Aunt Fang with the other.

Jiulang Gu Wenhui helped Aunt Ding to follow behind.

The fifth lady hesitated, called the nurse to hug Gu Jing, and chased after her.

Gu Ke saw the opportunity to bow his hand to the fourth master, "Fourth uncle, I will go back to the room with my mother to take care of my father first, and I will not accompany you." "Emperor Lala took away the second room girl.

There are only four rooms left in the empty Sixi Hall, and the family looks at each other.

The fourth lady approached the fourth master and said softly, "Fourth master, let's go back to the house too." If you don't feel at ease, it's okay to go to your father and mother later to celebrate the New Year. ”

“…… Why don't we go to my father's place as a family to keep the New Year? ”

The fourth lady choked, but still said gently: "The children are not old, and if they stay up late and make noise, I'm afraid my father and mother won't be able to stand it." She couldn't help but complain a little in her heart, she had to worship her ancestors early tomorrow morning, and she had to take care of it, even if she could stay up for a night, her son and daughter were not very old, and after the New Year in the main courtyard, it would be good to go back to the house and sleep for half an hour.

"Then you take the children back, and I'll go to my father first." After the fourth master finished speaking, he went out by himself.

You didn't say that you would send our mothers back first!

The fourth lady swallowed silently, and took a few children and aunts back to the courtyard of the fourth room.

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The courtyard of the second room is still as quiet as usual, and the red lanterns do not add much to the festive atmosphere.

The second lady sent a few girls to accompany their aunt, and after giving the second master the medicine, she went back to her house, leaving the second master and Gu Ke to talk alone.

After a while, Gu Ke opened the thick curtain and walked into the second lady's room, "Mother, I'll accompany you to keep the New Year." ”

The second lady smiled very comfortably, "Okay, I asked people to put wild chestnuts and sweet potatoes in the charcoal basin, and they can be eaten in a while." ”

"Hehe, my son hasn't eaten roasted chestnuts for a long time."

The second lady waved away and let the personal grandmother guard the door and whisper to Gu Ke.

"The second master said about the marriage of your three younger sisters?"

"Yes, dad means to pick a sister and let grandfather decide, and the rest is up to the person we like."

“…… Alas, it means your grandfather, but it's not your grandmother......"

"Mother, I don't think we can do this. Now let's give the three sisters in the picture are the right people, in-laws and sisters-in-law, you also asked the eldest princess to inquire, I dare not say that it is the best, but the sisters will definitely be able to live well in the past, no matter how bad I am, I can support the sisters, and I can speak. ”

Yuyi took advantage of the excitement in Beijing during this time, and together with the fourth lady, she ran a few banquets suitable for the three girls to move around, and also circled a few families to show the second lady, and then took advantage of Gu Yao's opportunity to check the security of the capital during this time, and checked the details. In the end, three were decided.

One is the eldest son of the Huang Shi of the Sixth Rank Minister's Department. Their ancestors were rich gentry in the Qufu City area of the south of the Yangtze River, with solid family resources, starting from his grandfather's grandfather, and his father was a scholar who was a scholar, and he was admitted to the same Jinshi, all the way to this position. Although Tongjinshi was born to reach the fifth grade, he has a good personality and knowledge, and his family is a key yamen like the Ministry of Officials, so his future will not be bad, and he will be helpful to Gu Ke in the future. And they are very happy to marry a girl from the Guogong Mansion and go back to be the eldest daughter-in-law, both their reputation and vision are beneficial to the Huang family. This family affair is the most optimistic and unwilling to give up by the second lady.

The other is the concubine of the three-room family of the Hou Zhou family of Qi Township. The Marquis of Qi Xiangxiang was not born in mud legs, he was a county order under the rule of Taizong, and he was the first to hug Taizong's thigh, followed the stability of Beiguan to compete for the world, and succeeded all the way to the marquis, which is similar to the background of the Guogong Mansion. Moreover, their family style is upright and low-key, and the family motto stipulates that children must take the road of the imperial examination, and even the eldest son is not qualified to inherit the title or become an official. If you can't do the imperial examination, you will go out of the house, and if you are successful, even if you are a concubine, you don't need to leave the house. The third room is the latter situation, it is a room out of the house, but the third master was born in Jinshi, and now he is the governor of Huzhou, the capital of Yingducheng, and it is expected that he will be promoted to the prefect of Yingdu City next year. Although it is said that he is the child born by the third old man, this concubine's test score is better than that of his sister-in-law, and the Zhou family also cultivates him, and his future is bright.

The last Cao family has some connection with the second lady's maiden family. There are many men in the Xu family, five brothers and two younger brothers of the second wife, after Yuyi entered the door, because there was a war in Beiguan at that time, she brought a few Xu family members who were willing to go to the battlefield to Beiguan, so now the brothers of the second lady are also mixed with military positions such as brigade commander and regiment commander. The Cao family is one of the members of the military department in charge of military affairs in the north, and the Xu family has dealt with them. His family has a simple population and knows the roots, his mother-in-law is not highly educated but she is cool, the three boys and two girls are all grandchildren, and the boys do not have dirty things such as aunts. This time I want to get married is the second son, so it's a little bad, and I will take the road of joining the army in the future.

The second lady and Gu Ke originally thought very well, the eldest girl was the eldest, the most stable and generous, and the biological mother Aunt Zhu was the only maid brought by the second lady from the Xu family, and the relationship was already intimate, suitable for marrying into the Huang family; The second girl is clever and discerning, her biological mother Aunt Zhen used to be Mrs. Fang's eldest maid, and she has a bit of incense, even if Mrs. Fang is indifferent to the second room, it does not affect her to ask for peace from time to time, and even the second girl can say a word or two in front of Mrs. Fang, and she can live well in a high-ranking family like the Hou family in Qixiang; The three girls are cowardly, the female celebrity is outstanding, mediocre in all aspects, the biological mother Aunt Cui is really Chongxi bought from outside, and she is considered to be a low marriage when she enters the Cao family, although she may be a military sister-in-law, but there is the Guogong Mansion and the Xu family, maybe she may be the most comfortable one among the sisters.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Ding of the fifth room also mentioned a family matter, which impressed Mrs. Fang.

Aunt Ding's father is Gu Pu's personal entourage, he saved Gu Pu's life back then, and left an old wife and two daughters after his death, the second daughter is Aunt Ding, the eldest daughter was a concubine for the concubine of the Changning Bodu family, and gave birth to a son and a daughter, Aunt Ding mentioned her sister's son. Originally, this kind of kinship between aunts could be completely ignored, but after Mrs. Fang knew that Aunt Ding's cheap brother-in-law's biological mother and Concubine Du Xian's biological mother were sisters, and the two sisters only had this one son, she tried every means to let the second room marry a daughter.

Of course, in order to set off how good this family affair is, Mrs. Fang also introduced two other families, one is the eldest grandson of her brother-in-law and the fifth lady's mother-in-law, the Shen family, and the other is the third son of Gu Pu's other relatives. The former's father is a businessman, who can't be clean anymore, and he has no fame; The latter's father is just a small battalion commander of the eighth grade, and the two brothers in front of him can't get any benefits in his hands. At a glance, you can see that they are all people who can't get on the stage.

The second lady and Gu Ke couldn't understand why Mrs. Fang felt that the family affair of the Changning Bo family was meritorious, although the father of the concubine might be the closest uncle of the third prince Guangen and the ninth prince, but the question was, would a prince not recognize the prince of the Bofu and recognize such a cheap relative who turned around the corner......

Gu Ke wanted to find someone to ask, his grandfather had always been soft-eared, he must have listened to his grandmother's words, the uncle was so busy that he didn't even have time to pay attention to his own son, and the fourth uncle and the fifth uncle were completely decorations, so he could only discuss with his father.

As a result, when he talked to the second master a few times ago, he didn't react much and didn't give any opinions, and today he suddenly said that he wanted to consider the family affairs of Changningbo's family, so that Gu Ke had to pay attention to it.

Gu Ke is thirteen years old this year, and as the eldest grandson and the person who supports the door in the second room, he is sensible early. A lot of his homework was taught by his father, and he knew very well that his father was not a serious illness and bedridden as outsiders thought. On the contrary, he borrowed several uncles of the Xu family and a few loyal servants in his own hands, and he knew the situation inside and outside the mansion well, and his reminders and guidance were also very insightful. He has always admired his father and is obedient, but when it comes to his sister's family affairs, he still wants to find out.

"You say, does your father know something?"

"If your father doesn't want to tell you why, it's either too big for him to bear, or he doesn't want you to get involved. If you really want to respond, forget about the Hou family of Qixiang, I originally felt that it was not appropriate for Shu to be strong and weak, but I was reluctant to raise people from his family who were less than twenty years old. Let your second sister marry to Changningbo's family. ”

“…… Yes, mother. ”

"When your grandfather speaks, I'll bring a few aunts and talk to them in detail. Let the official media come to the door after the holiday, so as not to produce any more moths! ”

"Where is the eldest princess?"

"Even if I come to the door in person to compensate, I don't have such a big face, so I have to go and talk to Grandpa Guo, which can be regarded as a wake-up." She thought for a moment and added: "I am a woman, I only know one truth, if I can't understand it honestly and clearly, then there is no need to do it." Not for myself, but for the sake of being worthy of my conscience and the people around me. But I can't see your father's actions clearly. Hello for yourself. ”

Gu Ke nodded helplessly, he knew that his father had a deep knot in his uncle's heart.