Chapter 8: A Shocking Secret

The little fat man Li Rui soon became completely well, which made Gu Qing, who was still dizzy when he walked until now, envious.

It's good to be young!

Because he was grounded by the Duke of Xinguo, Li Rui could not leave the West Garden. In addition, Gu Qing came to the West Garden every once in a while to take a look at him, and Li Rui decided to use the reason of "wanting to study" to let Gu Qing stop in Qingcang Courtyard.

The entire Great Chu knew that the old lady in the Xinguo Mansion only knew a few words!

But this time it was Gu Qing who he was up to.

"You want to read? Okay, finally sensible. Gu Qing looked at the little fat man with an unexpected look on his face, and his heart blossomed. She sat on the platform by the window of the study with a tea bowl in her hand, and said with a smile: "Then you are reading here, and grandma is sitting by the window and watching you read." ”

Li Rui's face froze.

Hahahaha, the little fat man's frozen expression is so funny, and the fat on his face will twitch slightly!

Li Rui reluctantly took out a book and read it aloud.

"Recruit Morning Glory and Surrender to the River Han Girl......"

Gu Qing squirted out the tea in his mouth with a "poof".

'There is a door! Legend has it that the old lady gets dizzy when she hears poems and songs, and so on, and it's true! Read more and let the old lady go! ’

The little fat man Li Rui was so excited that his eyes narrowed, and he put the voice of the poem even louder.

"Thousands of hands are picked, and the machine is ......" Even Xiangyun turned his back.

"Not in ...... all day long"

“…… Yingying is in the water, and the pulse is silent. ”

After listening to Li Rui's last sentence of "selling and selling" read out, Gu Qing fell down on the railing of the Xuantai with a smile, humming and rubbing his stomach. What a talented child, half of the song "Morning Glory" is wrong! Is he really twelve? It's not two years old, is it?

Li Rui looked at his old grandmother inexplicably and smiled like a crazy woman. He didn't know what was so funny about reading a poem. But he sensitively felt that he might have read something wrong, otherwise he wouldn't have turned his back on Xiangyun and Mama Hua, and his shoulders shrugged. Both of them were literate subordinates.

But whether he was wrong or not, it wasn't his grandmother who should have heard it!

"Aha...... Hahaha...... Even though your grandmother and I are uneducated, I know ...... Haha, that's not how this poem reads...... Xiang, Xiangyun, read this poem to Young Master Rui......"

Xiangyun smiled and picked up the lost poetry book from the bookcase, turned the page just now, and re-read it.

Xiangyun's voice was very clear, and he chanted poetry in a low tone, but Li Rui didn't have the slightest appreciation, his face became redder and stiffer, making Gu Qing laugh even more.

Hahaha, the big meat bun has become a soup dumpling!

Li Rui looked at his grandmother who was smiling with some annoyance, and wanted to get under the table. Soon, however, he noticed that his grandmother was not smiling anymore, but was holding her stomach and looking at him with some panic.

"Rui'er, you go out for a while, wherever you go, play first!" Gu Qing looked at Li Rui, who was a little curious, and said in a good voice.

Is my grandmother unwell again?

Li Rui hesitated, trying to hold his eyes that were squeezed by fat and looked at Gu Qing hard.

Can't watch wow!

"Get out!" Gu Qing straightened his face and pointed to the door with a serious expression. "Immediately!"

"Yes, grandmother." Li Rui was full of grievances, lowered his head, and withdrew with red eyes.

Seeing the little child's deflated appearance, Gu Qing also felt that he was too serious, and felt a little guilty. But in her current situation, she must not let this child stay in the house. Nor can I explain to him why I let him out. He couldn't let him look at her hard.

"Jiayun, you disperse the people around you, and then guard the entrance of the corridor and don't let people in. Xiangyun, you go back to the Cloud Courtyard and bring a complete set of clothes, you have to be quiet. The side of this "Who Sits Xuan" is open, but fortunately, there is a large screen behind the bookcase that can be temporarily covered. Gu Qing blushed and waited for them to go out, before she smiled bitterly at the only remaining flower mama in the room and said:

"Mama Hua, help me behind the screen. I soiled my dress. ”

Just now, when she laughed the hardest, a hot current suddenly surged, and her first reaction was-"It's over, here is the big aunt!" ”

But in a blink of an eye, she knew something was wrong. Because this old lady Qiu didn't have decay water when he was not yet fifty years old. As she rummaged through her memories, she was glad she didn't have to try the dreaded "menstrual belt" in ancient times.

That would be......

Holy! Don't bring such a playful person!

She burst into laughter!! It's not an adjective, it's really diabetes!

She wants to die again! Is it okay to hit the pillar? Or hit the wall? No one will stop her this time!

As a pediatric doctor, Gu Qing couldn't understand what the sphincter of the elderly was like in ancient times. In modern times, she had never heard of anyone who had suffered from this problem at the age of fifty.

It's just too hard, okay? Is this forcing her not to laugh, cry, or cough violently in the future? No wonder this old lady left everyone with a "no smile" evaluation. Whoever wants to laugh has to change their pants, and everyone will control their emotions, okay?

Gu Qing turned his face against the wall, revealing an expression of wanting to die. When Xiangyun changed her clothes just now, she wanted to just faint. It's not her who is uncomfortable, it's Xiangyun. The girl knelt down on the spot, and swore that she would not go out and talk nonsense.

She didn't worry that she would go out and talk nonsense, so she stood up first and let her change her pants, okay? She won't wear this rope around the pants twice and wear the dirty pants! There is also the palace silk on the waist, there is no rubber band under her feet, and the socks are all on the rope buckle, it is too troublesome to scatter, otherwise she would have taken it off by herself.

Now the bottom is wet and sticking to the base of the leg, you know?

Still Mama Hua couldn't look at it, and reached out to help her change all the clothes on her lower body first, and then Xiangyun dared to get up and put on her shirt. In the process, Xiangyun kept his head down.

Gu Qing only learned in ancient times that there were so many steps and exquisiteness in wearing clothes. There are ropes under the armpits on both sides of each shirt to fix the placket, and the clothes should be "right", that is, the left placket is covered by the right armpit tie, the right chest half is inside, and the left half is outside. The Hu people of the previous dynasty were "left", so the Taizu of this dynasty stipulated that "left" was a loss of honor and would be beaten.

Gu Qing originally wanted to be self-reliant and dress herself, but then she accidentally tied the wrong belt, which startled the girls in the house. There is no understanding of human feelings under the law, if Mrs. Tai really wears this to go out, Mrs. Tai is not the only one who will be beaten!

When Gu Qing knew that "disheveled" might be beaten, he decisively gave up the idea of dressing himself and let them serve all of them. Anyway, if you see it more, you will wear it.

Xiangyun returned to Zhiyun Courtyard and took a hand-held incense burner, lit it in "Who sits in Xuan", and smoked it on all sides. Xuantai couldn't sit still, and Mama Hua was changing the indigo feather satin cushion that was already wet. Gu Qing embarrassedly picked up the books on Li Rui's bookcase and flipped through them, but her eyes were involuntarily sucked by the calligraphy and paintings on the big screen.

I didn't pay attention to it before, Li Rui's "strong" body blocked a small part of this screen, so Gu Qing didn't notice that the content on this screen was so brilliant. It was also after looking at this screen that Gu Qing understood why the open study on the long corridor in the West Garden had such a strange name.

Gu Qing doesn't know how to draw Chinese paintings, nor can she write calligraphy, so she doesn't know whether the picture of a man sitting alone by the window drinking on the screen is good or not, and I don't know what kind of body the only poem on it is "Who to sit with, the bright moon and the clear breeze are me", but she thinks that she still has the taste for appreciating beauty. She could deeply feel the peace and tranquility revealed from the whole picture, as well as the beauty and fitness shown in those nine words.

If there's anything else she satisfies about crossing over, it's the charming atmosphere of the quaint and the exquisite life that you wouldn't enjoy at all in modern times. Even each bowl and each pair of chopsticks have a different combination. Those who drink soup, soup, and porridge are all different. Ivory, ebony, silver-inlayed, each pair has a talking head. Mrs. Qiu herself can not be particular, but others must not let her not be particular. Mrs. Qiu's casualness is reckless, but if others are really casual with her, they have made a big mistake. So when Gu Qing first started, he often looked at those exquisite things and was amazed.

She felt guilty even when she opened her headdress, and no matter how much she liked jewelry, she hadn't played with those delicate heads. She always felt that she was rushing to live the good life of others.

Everyone thought that Mrs. Qiu was illiterate, so there were not many calligraphy and paintings in her room, and all kinds of precious ornaments and embroideries made the room decorated with grace and luxury.

But from the screens, murals, and plaques in Qingcang Courtyard, Gu Qing still felt the things that could not be shown in the costume dramas he watched before.

That is "qi". Or, it can also be called "rhyme".

Gu Qing finished admiring the screen and looked at the bottom of it. What was written on the inscription was "Ge Shengshu in his own house in the autumn of the year of Guisi", seeing this, Gu Qing couldn't help but show a look of regret.

It turned out to be the work of Li Meng, the father of the bear child's early death.

Thinking about the "beckoning morning glory" and "selling and selling" that he heard just now, Gu Qing couldn't help but shake his head.

Mama Hua saw Mrs. Qiu looking sad at the screen, and sighed in her heart. This old lady Qiu could have lived a better life. In addition to marrying a good husband, she also gave birth to a good son. It's a pity that the amazing and brilliant Master Meng ......

Hua Chao was originally the daughter of a criminal official and was confiscated from the palace. Later, she became a female official who managed the cold palace in the previous dynasty. She was originally going to die when Lao Guogong followed Taizu to break through the palace city, and in that turmoil, too many palace maids died under the ravages of the chaotic army. The concubines and princesses couldn't move, but they couldn't escape.

It was the old man who saw that she was not afraid of danger in front of the cold palace gate, and his mind was clear, so he moved his mind to save her. After Emperor Yuming, Taizu gave her to Qiu Lao Taijun as a slave.

The old prince Li Shuo knew that his wife's qualifications were reckless, and her temperament was not tactful, Hua Chao had been in charge of the cold palace for more than ten years, and he had seen all kinds of concubines and palace maids, and he had seen a lot of all kinds of private things, and there was such a female official who was willing to help raise his wife, and he was relieved. But he didn't expect that his wife didn't like her, a female official from the palace.

Even though Qiu's mouth respectfully called her "Flower Lady", and later when she got old, she called her "Flower Mama", but her attitude has always been salty and indifferent. She began to hope to be relied on from the beginning, and then gradually accepted her fate, and finally saw how Mrs. Qiu lost her husband, lost her child, and stayed in the North Garden, so she simply regarded herself as a guest in the Guogong Mansion for the elderly.

How the Fang family and Li Mao treated the young son left by Li Meng, she saw it all. She felt that the old lady should know it too. If Mrs. Qiu was really a woman who didn't know anything, she wouldn't have raised a son like Li Meng. Li Mao later became so modest, and it was also because the heir was determined early in the mansion and gradually cultivated his temperament, not because of Qiu Taijun's lack of ways to teach his son.

Since Mrs. Qiu has her own ideas, she doesn't have much to say. She wanted to repay the favor, but she didn't want to lead to the uneasiness of the Xinguo Mansion, and the old lady wanted to whitewash the peace, so she helped her whitewash the peace.

But this time, Young Master Li Rui was dangerous, and Old Taijun Qiu seemed to have a new idea. If she really wanted to reach out again to protect her eldest grandson, she thought she could help her.

In just a few days, Mama Hua felt that she and this "hostess" who had been with her for decades finally had some heart-to-heart feelings. Before this, Mrs. Qiu had always treated her as a guest, although she was polite, she was not enthusiastic enough, she could neither fully trust her, nor would she entrust her with anything important.

In fact, she rarely saw Qiu Shiyou's expression of joy and sorrow. It is said that she is an ignorant woman in the countryside, but even when her proudest son Li Meng died, she did not throw herself on the ground and cry like an ordinary country woman, but fell ill, and since then she has fallen into the problem of sometimes having a confused brain for a while.

Just now, she felt that she understood why Mrs. Qiu had always had that kind of temperament. The kind of indifference that even the old prince admires does not come from her inner peace.

It turned out that she had this unsightly hidden disease.