Chapter 124: The Covenant of the Flower Society
Li Rui complained and vomited, and he had a good time complaining, but he made a mess of Master Jiang.
"You said it was a mad dog?"
Li Rui nodded frantically: "There is a mad dog chasing the child, and the master rushes out and kills him with his bare hands!" β
"Killing without blinking is killing an assassin? No, how long have you been hunted by the Assassins! β
Didn't you say there was only one wave!
Li Rui screamed badly.
"It's that group of people, it's that group of people!"
"Black in heart?"
"Later, I met a horse thief! Horse thief! How can you be polite to deal with these people with blood on their hands! β
"Why are there horse thieves with bloody hands?" Gu Qing's eyebrows furrowed.
Did this child go out for the New Year to learn from the experience?
"Horse thieves in Liangzhou are very common, and there is no production in that place in Liangzhou, and now the Silk Road has been cut off......," Li Rui sighed, "If you can't live, you will steal, rob, and do bad things." β
"The trade route is impassable, the land is barren...... Gu Qing muttered thoughtfully, "Hey, no, there are pants!" β
"That's for the medicine." Li Rui gritted his teeth and said, "I rode a horse and my thigh was worn out, and my whole body was so sore that I couldn't walk, and I couldn't take off my clothes. β
Li Rui struggled to let Gu Qing and Yan Yun know what was going on. The so-called fact that Master Jiang is a "cold-blooded perverted murderer" is also his exaggeration.
Although Yanyun's face looked a little better after Li Rui's explanation, he was still shocked in his heart.
Any girl who lives in a deep house compound and hears that the person who proposed to her has killed someone, she always has to think about it for a moment. If you are taken by a cold-blooded murderer, then it is called misfortune!
After listening to Li Rui's explanation, Gu Qing didn't feel funny, but just felt annoyed for a while. She pointed to the wall in front of her and said to Li Rui:
"Go and stand by the wall by yourself, I don't say yes, you are not allowed to move, and you are not allowed to go."
"Grandma!"
"No nonsense, go stand!"
Li Ruizhi said that he had overdone his joke, so he could only drag his legs to stand by the wall.
Gu Qing hung Li Rui there and did his own thing. Li Ming looked at Li Rui standing by the wall uneasily, and then looked at his grandmother who was doing other things.
He wanted to speak several times and stopped, looking at his grandmother as if he didn't see his brother's eyes, Li Xiaodao's heart trembled, and he still didn't say anything.
Grandma was angry or something, it was terrible.
Brother, you better ask for more blessings!
Li Rui stood by the wall embarrassed, even if he was studying with him in the palace now, he had never been punished by the handboard, and his grandmother was so kind to him on weekdays, but now he let him stand at the door of the next person......
He was ashamed and anxious, aggrieved and uncomfortable.
If he hadn't known that his grandmother was not the one who would punish him for no reason, he would have walked away.
Gu Qing cooled him for half an hour, and saw that his whole person seemed to be hit, so he finally couldn't bear to punish him again.
She paced to Li Rui's side, obviously regretting it in her heart, and she still had to put on a solemn appearance on her face:
"Do you know what's wrong with you?"
"I shouldn't let my own will slander Master Jiang at will." Li Rui said with a sullen head. "But I'm kidding......"
"Not every joke can be a joke for someone else. Jokes also depend on whether they can be made or not. For those who are not familiar with Master Jiang, if you describe him like this, although you yourself are happy, Master Jiang's reputation will be ruined. β
Gu Qing slapped Li Rui's head.
"If it was originally a good marriage, if you say so, you will delay people for life. Sometimes you just say casually, a joke that is not malicious unintentionally, and the speaker has no intention of listening, and the disaster will happen. β
"A gentleman is cautious, a gentleman is cautious, a gentleman is cautious." Gu Qing said what Lao Guogong wrote in a certain book, hoping that Li Ming and Li Rui could understand the deep meaning of their grandfather's words.
Gu Qing felt that Li Rui and Li Ming both had this problem, and when they were in front of her, they were a little open-mouthed. Maybe it's because I'm too "open-minded" and the two kids want to be happy too much.
"I'm not just angry that you let your own will slander Master Jiang. Master Jiang is your teacher, and when I ask you what kind of person he is, the first thing that comes to your mind is his many shortcomings rather than his strengths, which shows that you are harsh on others than you are, and you are not sincere enough to treat others. β
Both of these children's personalities have fatal flaws, which she has noticed from before. Li Rui is strict with self-discipline, but his personality is too strong, and it is easy to create an arbitrary situation.
Perhaps it was because he was "killed" by his uncle and aunt when he was a child, and this child was insecure and treated many people with suspicion, and then affirmed them; I like to carry it by myself when I encounter something, but it's not really the kind of open-mindedness that can bear it, but a feeling of gritting my teeth to support, and I also have resentment and unwillingness in my heart.
Maybe he was just joking, just trying to amuse her, but once the damage is done, how can it be reversed?
Don't say anything else, Yanyun's appearance of standing just now, the sad tears, and now this kind of uncertain mood, is it really just Li Rui's "joke" that can make up for it?
Now that they are young, the greatest harm may be this, and if they don't realize their mistakes now, they will go even more astray in the future.
She can't take care of them for the rest of their lives. Her life experience also determined that she couldn't help them after they started to embark on a career path, but at least when the values and outlook on life of the two children were not fixed, she could do something to guide them in a good direction, and it could be regarded as an effort.
Gu Qing's "grandmother and grandson" lasted for an hour. Not only Li Rui, but also Gu Qing and Li Ming also brought it along.
Halfway through, Li Zhao came to ask for peace, and heard from the people outside that Grandmother Tang was not in a good mood today, and then lifted the curtain and saw such a situation in the house, and sneaked away.
Since Li Rui left home and entered the palace, Gu Qing's worry and sense of crisis have become more and more serious, and the worry about not seeing the child all day long, "what is he doing, what is he doing, whether he has suffered losses, and whether he has bullied others" has become more and more intense.
The center of gravity of her life in ancient times suddenly seemed to collapse in half, leaving her at a loss.
She is educating her two children, so isn't she using this "lesson" to express her emotions and worries? If she hadn't said this, she would have been worried about bipolar disorder one day.
I don't know if Lu Dao is like this for every parent, or if she was born to worry about her life.
"Old lady, there is a greeting post, and a grandmother from the Deyang County Lord's Mansion asks to see you." There was a servant under the porch of the main house who came to report.
'Saved! The eyes of the brothers, who could not lift their heads as reprimanded, lit up.
'Xiong Ping is good! When I return to the palace, I will definitely help you do all your homework! β
Li Rui heard that it was his classmate's mother who made the post, and he couldn't wait to rush into the palace to kiss him now.
"Lord Deyang? Do we know this in our family? Gu Qing had never walked around in Da Chu's social circle, and when he mentioned the county lord of Deyang, his eyes were dark.
"Mrs. Tai, the county lord of Deyang is the younger sister of today's saint, and in her early years, she married Xiong Le, the son of Xiong Ning, the founder of the country. Her family and my family have not moved much, but the 'Fang Fei Yuan' on the county lord's mansion is very famous, and in the past, the ladies and ladies in Beijing often went to the garden to go to the flower party, and her status was respected, and she was very respected by the noblewomen. β
Grandma Sun has been in the house for a long time, and she used to be a girl who served in Li Meng's study, and she often chatted with the eldest grandmother's girl, so she still knew something about it, so she said what she knew.
"Grandma, the only son of the county lord of Deyang is now the companion of His Royal Highness the Great Prince like me. We are almost in and out of the same place now......" Li Rui was afraid that his grandmother would not know about the relationship between Lu Dao, so he hurriedly prepared to tell his grandmother about the situation of the Deyang County Lord's Mansion that he knew about Lu Dao.
"It turned out that I was here to pull my teammates for my son."
Gu Qing nodded.
"Tell me about it."
This Deyang county lord is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, like to socialize, the Xiong family married the Deyang county lord of the Yibin is a person who likes to play in the mountains and rivers, the husband and wife are kind, the couple is deeply affectionate, so the life is also comfortable, they have always respected and loved each other, and it is also a good story among many family members in the capital.
This guest of honor called Xiong Le lives up to his name, likes the joy of gardening plants and trees, the garden at home is taken care of very exquisitely, and there are four seasons of flowers and trees competing for beauty, everyone will be amazed when they see it.
And the lively Lord of Deyang will call friends every time the flowering period arrives. She has a wide range of friends, and the noblewomen she has made are not limited to noble families, but they are all noble families, and if they have not received her flower club post, they dare not say that they are one of the best families in the capital.
"Mama Hua, has our family received her family's post?" Gu Qing thought hard, and didn't remember the posts she had received from her family before.
Such a famous county lord, if there is a post, she should have an impression.
"Nope. But it's normal to have no. "Mama Hua returned.
Hey? Normal?
Could it be that the county lord of Deyang thinks that their family is from a mud leg and is not worthy of her family's flower party?
With a stomach full of questions, Gu Qing called the family members of the Deyang County Lord's Mansion to come.
The fact that Mrs. Qiu is illiterate is known to the entire official eunuchs of Dachu, and only a very few people know that Mrs. Qiu has been literate in recent years, and she can also write and read.
But this county lord of Deyang, who had no dealings with her, was obviously impossible to know, so she sent a family member.
The personal people around the county lord are all palace people in the palace in the past, although they are slaves, they can't be lazy. This mother-in-law did not kowtow to Gu Qing as soon as she entered the door like those who had sent messages before, but bent down slightly, saluted Gu Qing, and made her intention clear.
It turned out that the osmanthus flowers of the "Fangfei Garden" in the Deyang County Lord's Mansion were blooming, so the Lord of Deyang County became interested and invited the female relatives of various families to enjoy the osmanthus flowers, drink osmanthus wine, and eat the osmanthus feast. In the post, it was said that now the children of the two families have become classmates, and I hope to move around more in the future.
In the end, this mother-in-law actually vaguely pointed out the news that Lu Jun, the young lady of the Lu family, had also agreed to the appointment.
Since Gu Qing heard Li Rui's self-defeating words last time, he knew that this child had reached the age where he would be curious about his fiancΓ©e. She had already been persuaded by Mama Hua to go out to socialize when the Fang clan could not come forward, and now that the county lord of Deyang had extended an olive branch, she naturally had to take this step bravely.
"Go back and tell your county lord that the old man will definitely go to the appointment. It's just an old lady, I'm afraid it will make many young ladies feel bored......"
"What Mrs. Qiu said, the old ladies of all the provinces have also been there. Who said that only young girls are allowed to love lively, and old ladies are not allowed to like flowers! "This grandmother is also a cool one, and when she got Gu Qing's letter, she immediately replied happily." Mrs. Tai hasn't been out for a long time, so naturally she doesn't know that now all over the capital is praising your good name! They are only happy to hear you go! β
No matter who you are, you will feel comfortable listening to such words. So Gu Qing also laughed.
"Since you have said so, the old body is naturally going to go." Gu Qing accepted the post and agreed to the appointment, so she asked Xiangyun to send her out.
Xiangyun sent this woman out of the weeping flower gate all the way, and stuffed a silver horn into her when no one was around.
The grandmother was not a shallow eyelid when she saw money, so she didn't come to pick it up, so she hurriedly excused herself.
"How does this work!"
"Give Mama a drink, it's not easy for Mama to run away, don't shirk it." Xiangyun is used to doing these things, and it is very natural to do it, and the expression on his face is neither too enthusiastic nor perfunctory.
The mother pushed a few times casually, and then accepted it.
"Mama, do you know which lady of the Lu family accompanied her?"
"It's the grandmother of the Lu family."
The grandmother of the Lu family, that is Lu Jun's sister-in-law.
Xiangyun knew the news, sent the mother-in-law away, and went back to the house to report.
In Zhiyun Courtyard, Gu Qing was teasing his grandson.
"Don't you always think that other girls don't want to see you, half a month later, grandma will go to see for you, if you look ugly and have a bad temper, don't feel sad, this family affair is not a good thing......"
"Grandma, my grandson has said it, and my grandson doesn't feel sad!" Li Rui began to regret the things he had complained about when he went to Zhiyun Courtyard, and grandma herself said not to joke, she could say whatever she wanted!
This is afraid that I will be laughed at by my grandmother for the rest of my life!
Look, look! The girls next to them had already turned around and started snickering.
Li Rui was overwhelmed with grief and indignation.
"In other words, why is this the younger sister of His Majesty the Emperor, but he is just a county lord? Shouldn't it be a princess? Gu Qing glanced at the post in his hand in confusion.
"Hey, grandma, don't you remember this? This has something to do with our house! β
"Does it have anything to do with our house?" Gu Qing flipped through the old lady's memories and thought hard.
After a few moments, she finally found the reason.
No wonder she didn't take the post from this house, no wonder Mama Hua said "It's normal to have nothing".
I see.
Speaking of which, the county lord of Deyang is just a county lord, and he really has something to do with the Xinguo Mansion. This has an old story involved.
When the king of Qiyang rebelled, he not only rebelled himself, but also pulled the two half-brothers of the current saint. At that time, the saint was still the crown prince, and these two younger brothers were not much different from him, but they had been suppressed, and they were sent to remote places to become vassals, and they had a heart of disobedience.
The old prince received the holy order, regrouped and led the troops to the battle, and finally put down the chaos. In the end, King Qiyang committed suicide, and the two princes were also pressed back to Jingli.
The first emperor was extremely angry back then, and even had the heart to kill them to set an example, and proposed to give the two princes to death several times in the court, but they were stopped by the old prince.
These children were all watched by the old man, and now they are always a little unbearable to fall into such a fate.
Princess Chu Xian of Deyang is the sibling sister of these two rebellious princes, and the three of them were born to the same mother, and they are very affectionate. In order to save her brother's life, she entered the palace in a sackcloth dress and asked to be stripped of her princess title, hoping to exchange the two brothers for a chance to live.
Cutting off the princess and expressing her willingness to become a concubine is a gesture to show their determination to be relegated to the rank of concubine and save their lives.
After becoming a commoner, there is no royal status, not even a royal identity, so there is no need to compete for the throne.
The emperor ignored this and denounced Princess Deyang as absurd. The mother of the two princes, Concubine Shi Shu, committed suicide in despair in the harem, and Princess Deyang fainted several times crying in the palace.
The first emperor was originally angry, and when the anger passed, he regretted it a little. Tiger poison does not eat children, not to mention that the father always thinks that his sons are instigated by bad people, so he walked down the steps of Princess Deyang, and did not kill the two princes, but was demoted to a concubine, and was confined in the palace and not allowed to leave the palace.
As for Princess Deyang, the first emperor cut her princess's title and fiefdom, and retained her clan identity, but she was demoted to become the county lord, the princess's mansion became the county lord's mansion, and her husband also changed from a concubine to a guest of honor.
Princess Deyang was originally a very cheerful person, and she had a close relationship with the ladies of the former families, but she was silent for many years because of this incident. It wasn't until Chu Rui ascended the throne that the new emperor not only did not show any knots to the "Deyang County Lord", but also took care of him everywhere, and the county lord gradually walked out of the haze of the past and began to walk out of the mansion again.
Chu Rui himself has no sibling sister, only one sister, who died early that year, and did not even leave a child, this Princess Deyang is kind and cheerful, and Chu Rui loves him very much. Later, when this kind of rebellion happened, the emperor and Chu Rui both regretted and grieved, but they could only try their best to repair the broken relationship, and they were unwilling to suppress her again.
Gu Qing flipped to this memory and nodded clearly.
"I see, this county lord does have something to do with our family."
If it weren't for the old prince who succeeded in quelling the chaos, maybe this chaos would have arisen, and maybe this princess would have become the "eldest princess".
But it was precisely because the old prince tried his best to prevent the emperor from killing the two princes in anger in the court that these two princes were able to survive until the most stubborn.
Therefore, this Deyang County Lord is afraid that he has always had mixed feelings about the Xinguo Mansion.
Gu Qing treated others with himself, and felt that if he met this matter, although intellectually he would understand that Li Laoguo Gong was just ordered to send out the division, and if he changed any general, he would arrest the mastermind of the rebellion if he put down the chaos, but emotionally he would definitely not be able to accept it.
As for Li Laoguogong's dissuasion from the former emperor not to give death to his own son, this is the duty of a courtier. It is always a bad thing to leave behind the notoriety of killing or forcing parents to death. The county lord of Deyang may not necessarily receive this love, maybe he will, but it must be very difficult to accept this series of changes calmly.
Thinking that His Majesty the Emperor would let the son of the county lord and Li Rui become classmates, he should have thought about it carefully. This emperor rarely did useless things. I think I want to try to repair the relationship between the two families through this.
Yes, the lord of Deyang County understood the emperor's meaning, so the post came.
Gu Qing thought about this in his mind and covered his mouth suddenly.
When did she start thinking of all these twists and turns?
When did she begin to understand the meaning of the big guys' every move, and she could also reason about the cause and effect?
Obviously, when she first came, she couldn't even see what Fang and Li Mao were doing, and she had to rely on Mama Hua's guidance!
Could it be that if you stay with these thick and black people for a long time, and then follow Mama Hua from time to time to learn to be a housekeeper, and see the big from the small, you can really improve your mind and emotional intelligence?
Gu Qing was happy and sad. The good news is that she found that she has improved a little more, and finally she is not the old woman who is dragging her feet in the Xinguo Mansion; The sad thing is that even if she has practiced all kinds of political literacy to an extremely high level, she is the life of an old lady in the back house in her life, and she has no ambition herself, seeing that this suddenly lit skill point is useless.
How nice it would be if she could wear it back? If she can wear it back, she will definitely not have to be bullied by the dean anymore!
Maybe there is no problem with the housekeeping in the management hospital!
After Gu Qing sighed, she let the two children go back, and she had to discuss the marriage with Yanyun.
Li Rui and his younger brother walked to the door and ran back. He walked to Gu Qing's side and whispered to Gu Qing:
"Appearance is secondary, the main thing is character."
Li Rui's brainless words made Gu Qing stunned.
"What?"
"I mean Miss Lu!" Li Rui glanced left and right, lowered his body and said.
"Oh, oh, oh~" The first sound, the second sound, raised the voice.
Li Rui blushed and dropped a sentence: "Grandma, it's good that you understand it in your heart!" Then he turned around and ran out.
Gu Qingxiao's eyes narrowed into a slit.
The troubles of teenagers or something, it's so beautiful!
The author has something to say: I'm sorry, I took care of some personal things in the morning, so this chapter is not too fat, and I will try to make a fat chapter in the evening!
Small Theatre:
Xiong Ping: I heard that Lao Tzu's homework was saved?
The author nodded.