Chapter XXVI
In the side hall of the Gu family ancestral hall, there is a row of green bamboos outside the gourd-patterned wood carved lattice window. The bamboo is washed by the rain and is bright and fresh, and the raindrops drip along the bamboo leaves, and the leaves rebound, as if you can hear a crisp 'ding' sound.
The rain is still falling.
Gu Shenrui, the head of the Gu family, and the old uncle of the Liang family had a private conversation in the side hall, while the rest of the people were waiting outside the side hall.
People on both sides whispered, mosquito-like voices, and couldn't hear what was being said.
Xiao Meng stood against the window lattice, observed the people in the hall, and saw that there was nothing to gain, so he seized the time to sink into his heart to remember the herbs introduced by Hong Xu's true recipe.
After a while, many people poured in outside the ancestral hall, and the one who was flocked to her head was a woman in a luxurious brocade dress who looked no more than fifty years old, with gorgeous facial features, and she must have been an outstanding beauty when she was young, but now, her brows were wrinkled deeply, her eyebrows were raised sideways, and the tails of her eyes were raised, giving people a very irritable feeling for no reason.
Beside her was an old lady and a blue maid who pretended to be outstanding, supporting her with her hands on the left and the right.
Gu Yuqiu followed closely after half a step, and then there were some dressed ladies and uniformly dressed maids, and the group was colorful and colorful.
You don't have to think about it to know that the woman who started the head is Zheng Liuer, the wife of the Gu family and the mother of the head of the Gu family.
As soon as Mrs. Tai arrived, she immediately asked, "What's going on?!" ”
The tone was strong and angry, and the temperature in the room dropped by a few degrees in an instant.
The people of the Gu family immediately stepped forward to say hello with a smile on their faces, and Xiao Meng made a gesture without being seen behind the crowd.
Mrs. Tai glanced at them one by one with a straight face, and looked at the guests of the Liang family in the hall.
The door in the side hall opened, and the head of the Gu family and the old man of the Liang family greeted him.
The head of the Gu family was a little pale and gloomy, and said, "Mother, you are here!" ”
Mrs. Tai glanced at him and looked at the old man of the Liang family, with a stiff smile on her face, "It turned out to be Brother Liang and Heng Liang of the Liang family in Suicheng, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”
Liang Peiheng stroked his beard, "Yes, I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm afraid it's been twenty or thirty years, Sister Zheng doesn't look old at all, hahaha!" ”
He laughed happily, but Mrs. Tai couldn't.
Since that incident, the two families have almost cut off contact, and today they suddenly came to the Three Treasures Hall without anything, but they were afraid that there would be no good thing.
She suddenly remembered Lian Yun who ran away a few days ago, and she had a faint bad premonition in her heart.
Mrs. Tai didn't ask the reason, and pretended to say, "Brother Liang is a guest from afar, Rui'er, don't be lazy, this is your father's best friend back then!" ”
Gu Shen Rui should be.
Liang Peiheng was a little cold on his face.
"There is no need to mention it as a close friend, the old man has never made such a face-turning old friend. The old man doesn't go around in circles with you, this time the old man brought a token to settle the appointment of the day. Although he doesn't want to push his beloved daughter into the wolf pit, he is based on integrity, and since he has an appointment, he must keep his promise. At the beginning, you refused to recognize the marriage contract on the grounds that the old man could not produce the token, and you also falsely accused the old man of deliberately embarrassing you. The old man suffered a dumb loss for no reason, and he has been aggrieved for more than twenty or thirty years, and now, it is time to settle the liquidation. ”
When Mrs. Tai heard this, her heart tightened, her steps stumbled slightly, and she was quickly supported by Mama Chen.
She forced her composure and said in a cold and hard tone.
"How is that possible? You, the token has been lost for the past twenty or thirty years, but you will take it out at this time, don't make a fake to fool my Gu family. Who doesn't know that your daughter was trying to seduce my son in vain, and more than 20 years have passed, and she still hasn't changed her life? ”
At this time, a woman with her head bowed while wearing a cloak walked out of the Liang family's team.
She lifted her cape and lifted her face with a sarcastic, soft smile on her face.
Aunt Gu laughed, when Shumei and Brother Gu were married, how could they seduce them?
The father often said to Shumei that Shumei had already promised Brother Gu that she should serve her future husband first, so at that time, Shumei only had Brother Gu in her eyes, didn't you think that this was said to be a seduction by the villain?
Later, because of the loss of the token, she failed to marry, and Shumei wanted to do so, and they flew and scattered to settle down. Helplessly, my father said, people don't stand without faith, Shumei has a marriage contract, although the token is lost, but the marriage contract is still there, how can he marry?
Shumei is deeply ashamed, she has only been alone in the empty boudoir for more than 20 years, and it is not the dead nature that the aunt of the Gu family said will not change!
It's just that Shumei and my father didn't think about it, and the token we were looking for with our credibility turned out to be a thief who shouted to catch a thief, and was stolen and deceived by the Gu family itself? ”
The last sentence was like a stick-on-the-head blow to Mrs. Tai's head.
I thought that God knew that you knew that I knew that no one else knew the secret, and after more than 20 years, it was suddenly revealed, how could I not be afraid?
Her face turned pale suddenly, and her breath sank for a moment before she pointed at the woman.
"Liang Shumei, this is Yingchenggu's family, how can you be allowed to lie here and make false accusations!"
Liang Shumei stepped back and stood beside Liang Peiheng, and the two of them had a bottom in their hearts when they saw Mrs. Tai's reaction just now, and the answer they came to verify had been confirmed.
Gu Shenrui frowned, stepped forward to help Mrs. Tai, while looking at Liang Shumei, who had not been seen for twenty or thirty years.
Liang Shumei, who is over forty years old, slowly coincides with the person in her memory.
At the beginning, Gu Shenrui's father, that is, the former head of the family, met Liang Peiheng late and became close friends, and then married their respective children and exchanged tokens.
Gu Shenrui always knew about this when he was a child, and he also regarded Liang Shumei as the only candidate for his wife.
But he didn't want to later, the Liang family lost power, and the emperor took a fancy to his daughter, so he coerced and lured, so the Liang family had to marry the eldest daughter of the Liang family to the royal family and became the royal favored family.
The eldest daughter also had to be favored as one of the four concubines.
Since then, the former head of the family has been haunted by the marriage.
You must know that the power of the immortal cultivation world is complicated, and the power of the royal family is gradually weakened due to the rise of the power of folk cultivation.
Although the royal family is still the most powerful in the secular world, and no family dares to easily resist the stalemate, it is not the only one who covers the sky with one hand.
The royal family has always wanted to infiltrate the power into the various families in order to control the major families, but who would think that their family would be annexed by the royal family, and finally have to humbly obey the order without sovereignty, and then destroy the family's thousands of years of inheritance.
As a result, the major families have a rule that is not explicitly stipulated, that is, to avoid the royal family and never marry the royal family.
When the former head of the family saw that the daughter of the Liang family had become a virtuous concubine, how could he dare to let Gu Shenrui, the then young master of the Gu family and the future head of the family, marry the daughter of Liang Peiheng, it would be like going to the royal family in vain.
Because of the situation, the former head of the family has not refused positively, and he thinks about the foundation of the Gu family, and is afraid that he will be sorry for the ancestors of the past generations, so he is often depressed.
Gu Shenrui saw it in his eyes, and slowly understood the severity of the situation, but he couldn't do anything.
Then there was later, when Gu Shenrui had to fulfill the marriage contract with Liang Shumei, the Liang family's token was lost, and the Gu family refused to marry, and the two families collapsed.
At that time, Gu Shenrui had surprises and complications in his heart. After all, they grew up together as childhood sweethearts.,Even if there's no love, there's friendship.,In the end, because the token is gone, I bite back and abandon another woman.,It's a little chilling to think about it.。
However, due to the situation, the Gu family could only use this excuse to push the Liang family away.
Today, listening to Liang Shumei's accusation that the Gu family had stolen the token, Gu Shenrui couldn't help but be a little surprised.
The truth about the loss of the token, he was not involved, so it is not clear.
Liang Peiheng saw Mrs. Tai's anger of gaffe, and his face was solemn.
"The clear ones are self-purifying, and the turbid ones are turbid, if the old man has no evidence, how can he appear here!"
"Then take out the evidence and take a look, if it is a fraud or frame-up, don't blame my Gu family for not talking about the past!"
Mrs. Tai held Gu Shenrui's arm tightly in her hand, and she was furious. In this anger, there is also a radical heart.
Xiao Meng looked at Lian Yun in the Liang family's team.
Sure enough, she walked out tremblingly with the support of the two Liang family members, glaring at Mrs. Tai and saying viciously.
"Zheng Liu'er, you slut, do you remember who I am?"