"If your mind isn't in it, you don't have to force it too much." Xue Shi glanced at Gu Qingyan, then turned his head and instructed the maid beside him, "You go and ask for tea and a stack of snacks." ”

Gu Qingwan was still a little embarrassed at first, but when she saw that Xue put down the scroll in her hand, her surging emotions calmed down.

She listened to the conversation between Xiao Sun and Aunt Cao, and she was inevitably a little panicked in her heart. This is not the society she is in that can be fought for freely, or Gu Qingshu was the matchmaker of her parents, but fortunately, the eldest girl had seen her future husband before she left the cabinet. The second girl has never even seen Zhou Jue, and she is not married like this.

She had been thinking about the meaning of Xiao Sun's and Aunt Cao's words, and the book in her hand naturally stayed on the original page for a long time, although the Xue family didn't care about foreign objects, but she also saw Gu Qingwan's abnormal behavior.

"Let the third aunt laugh, I thought about when the old lady and the eldest aunt would come back, and I was distracted." Gu Qingwan came back to her senses and saw that the Xue family had asked the maid to accept the book, and picked up the needle and thread next to her to make it.

The Xue family doesn't like to go out, and they don't like to go up and down with the ladies of various provinces, and they came to Jingguo Temple today just to accompany Mrs. Gu to fulfill their filial piety. She just fell behind Xiao Sun and Aunt Cao, and the onlookers naturally saw it most clearly, and Gu Qingwan had been avoiding Aunt Cao, and the Xue family naturally saw it in her eyes.

Seeing Gu Qingwan's answer, Xue didn't break it, but just buried his head and embroidered it intently.

The embroidery in her hand seemed to be almost ready, and sure enough, Xue embroidered for a while, and before the white tea came back, he bit the thread and removed the embroidery bandage to look at it carefully.

At a glance, Gu Qingwan knew that Lu Dao was a picture of a fish playing lotus leaves, but it was vivid and exquisite. In the Dingyuan Marquis's mansion, he only knew that the three masters of Lu Dao and his family were bookworms, but Gu Qingwan had never heard of Xue's good embroidery.

The Huang Xiuniang of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion was invited from the embroidery village in the south of the Yangtze River, and she was famous for her embroidery because of her hand. It's just that when I got older, I was afraid that my eyes would really be broken, so I went to Beijing to find relatives to take refuge, and married a widower in Beijing. Later, when the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion learned about it, he invited her into the mansion, and gave five taels of silver every month, so that she could teach the girls of the Gu family needlework, and also instructed the embroidery girls raised by the Gu family on weekdays.

Although Huang Xiuniang doesn't do much needlework now, Gu Qingwan has still seen the fish play lotus leaf picture she embroidered. Compared with Xue's embroidery and Huang Xiuniang's, it is not dwarfed at all.

Gu Qingwan looked at Xue Shi with some astonishment, probably because the expression on her face was undisguised, but it made Xue Shi laugh: "Why do the three girls look at me like this, but what's wrong with me?" ”

Suddenly seeing the opposite side of the Xue family from usual, it was inevitable that Gu Qingwan would be a little stunned for a while. Xue Shi knew that she was thinking and asked like this, this was a joke with her.

Gu Qingwan's mouth moved, but she didn't ask in the end.

What does the real Xue look like and what does it matter. To survive in this deep house, without the old lady and the eldest lady as backers, which one is not careful to live? Even if she saw it with her own eyes, it was mostly superficial, and it was Gu Qingyan, who had always been timid and scared, and dressed like a fortune boy, and she was afraid that she was also hiding it.

Either endure it, be ruthless, or get out.

The third girl is straightforward and undisguised, although she is connived at the arrogance of the connived, she can't be ruthless, and the final result can only be that she died at a young age, and she survived by luck, and she couldn't escape the cold arrow of Xiao Sun's secret.

She survived instead of the third girl, but she didn't want to suffer the same fate as the third girl.

Gu Qingwan thought of this, but laughed softly: "Xie Lu Xie Third Aunt." ”

Xue Shi smiled, but he didn't answer Gu Qingwan's words.

The situation of their three rooms in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion is relatively delicate. Although the third master is a descendant, because he has been upright since he was a child, he does not know how to be flexible, compared to the eldest son who wants to inherit the family business and the second son who knows how to please Lu, he is naturally not loved by the old lady. In addition, the relationship between her and Gu Mingyi was personally set by Mrs. Gu, and their three rooms were even less valued by Mrs. Gu.

The three rooms of them never got involved in the affairs of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, just because of the attitude similar to that of a bystander, the twists and turns in this mansion, the Xue family saw it more clearly than ordinary people.

Back then, the He family and her entered the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion successively, although she and Gu Mingyi were not relatives set by Mrs. Gu, but the He family did a ∪thorn in the flesh of Mrs. Gu, and her life was good.

Thinking of the deceased He's family, the Xue family secretly sighed, and then heard Han Lian outside: "Madam, third girl, the old lady and the eldest lady are back, saying that they let the lady and the girls go to the release pond to release the animals together." ”

"I don't think I can eat the tea of Jingguo Temple." Xue Shi read a sentence softly, and then he was helped by the white tea to the outside of the wing.

Gu Qingwan naturally walked beside the Xue family, and when she got out, the Xue family suddenly whispered in her ear: "Third girl, you should also go to your uncle's house to walk around, your second aunt has already followed your second uncle back from her post, and she has been in Beijing for half a month." ”

The uncle Xue said naturally refers to the He family on the side of her biological mother, the He family.

The biological mother of the three girls is also from the Dingshi family, and the ancestors were also nobles, but the title is gone when the generation of the third girl's maternal ancestor is gone. However, the third girl's maternal ancestor He Zhanghua was born in the imperial examination, and he became a second-class member with his own ability, and He's family affairs were decided by He Zhanghua and Old Lady Gu at this time.

It's a pity that within two years of setting up the family affair, He Zhanghua died of illness, but the He family did not decline. The two uncles of the third girl had already been admitted to the Jinshi and became Beijing officials.

Now Gu Qingwan's eldest uncle He Chengping is the envoy of Zheng Sanpin, and his second uncle He Chengyang has been in charge of the post for many years. Xue said that her second aunt returned to Beijing, mostly because her second uncle returned to Beijing to report on work. He Chengyang has been in office for so many years, if nothing else, I am afraid that he will stay in Beijing this time.

Mrs. He passed away when the third girl was seven years old, and when she was still alive, the third girl had to stay at He's house for a few days every month. Later, Mrs. He passed away, and the relationship between the three girls and the He family became more and more estranged.

Frankly speaking, the two uncles of the third girl are in the heart of loving the house and Wu, and they take great care of the third girl. But the aunt is different, they don't have so deep feelings with their sister-in-law, they are good to the third girl, and most of them are just catering to Mrs. He.

The second aunt, Guan, has a straightforward temperament, and Gu Qingwan remembers that she was still very easy to get along with when the third girl was young. Later, Mrs. He passed away, and He Chengyang originally wanted Ding Wei to return to his ancestral hometown, but at that time, the saint was employing people, and he used "love" to let him serve and govern affairs, and he was released from his foreign post within two years.

The third girl's eldest uncle, He Chengping, has been worried about Ding for three years, and in addition to taking it, he jumped two levels in a row, which shows that he still attaches great importance to the He family.

And since the third girl was seven years old, she was sent by the He family to pick her up, and she refused to go again, mostly because of that incident. That incident hit the third girl so hard that Gu Qingwan's memory was also very deep.

The eldest aunt of the three girls has a son and a daughter, and the eldest daughter is over 19 years old and has already left the cabinet. And the eldest son, He Ziming, is seventeen this year, and he also got together with the Ruan family of Dali Temple last year.

But when Mrs. He was alive, she had the intention of kissing and kissing. If she has a stepmother, she will have a stepfather, whether she is afraid that the third girl will be wronged in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, or the little Sun family will make small moves in the family affairs of the three girls, the only way is to let the three girls enter the door of the He family.

The object of this marriage is naturally He Ziming, the eldest son of the third girl's aunt Lu.

But Mrs. He didn't calculate that she would die so early, nor did she calculate that her eldest daughter-in-law Lu didn't like the third girl as much as she imagined. Gu Qingwan can also understand this, after all, it is one thing to love as a niece, and it is another thing to marry as a daughter-in-law.

Besides, the third girl was indulged by Xiao Sun's delicate temperament, and she was indeed not suitable to be the eldest daughter-in-law of the He family, and it was normal for the Lu family to be unwilling.

The third girl heard Lu secretly complaining to the grandmother beside her, and there was no shortage of ugly words in her words. She thought that she was loved by the He family, and she couldn't accept that kind of blow, coupled with her stubborn temperament, she never entered the door of the He family again.

The Lu family left a knot in the hearts of the three girls, but they had nothing to do with the Guan family, who had just returned with He Chengyang. Xiao Sun's family obviously united with Aunt Cao to design her, and until now, only the He family can be convincing.

Master Cao was originally in Luzhou, and listening to Aunt Cao's meaning, this Cao Di's matter is also known in Luzhou. As long as you inquire about this matter clearly, with the old lady's temperament, I am afraid that she will not be allowed to marry again. And Guan, who has a straightforward temperament and has returned from the south, is undoubtedly the best candidate for help.

Gu Qingwan walked behind Xue for a while, and her footsteps suddenly paused.

Xue mentioned to himself that the Guan family had returned to Beijing with He Chengyang's foreign appointment, and he was afraid that he had already seen that the third girl was unwilling to have anything to do with her eldest aunt Lu.

The second girl learned from Xue's family, and she seemed to be silent and indifferent to anything on weekdays, but she saw everything in her eyes. But what does it matter, the third room has nothing to do with her, the girl in the second room, the second girl will kindly remind herself that there is a problem with the peach branch, and the news of the third lady is really helpful to her.

Gu Qingwan had a plan in her heart, so she naturally settled down. She paid great attention to the old lady Gu, but she didn't let Aunt Cao find an opportunity to show her closeness.

Finally survived until she returned to the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, and before passing the dinner, Gu Qingwan asked for a peace charm in Jingguo Temple under the pretext of sending Guiye to inform Gu Cunke to come to Yuanxiang Pavilion.