There was nothing to do in the past few days, so Qing Shu stayed in the mansion wholeheartedly, slowly reading the "Study Tour", while waiting for the Gu Wu clan to come to the door.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and Qingshu feels that the bed is not warm at all, and occasionally wakes up coldly at night. Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan actually wanted to add a quilt to her, but she was not happy, she always felt that the two quilts were too heavy, and the person who pressed them was uncomfortable to sleep. Let's make a charcoal fire, it's too early. Before the weather is really cold, charcoal is burned at this time, and it will cost a lot of silver. Charcoal is not cheap, ranging from ten to five cents, depending on the quality of the matter.

After thinking about it, Qing Shu decided to give the room in the house a big makeover. That is, the families of the village learn to raise the kang and burn firewood and hot the kang; Then make a wall of fire to warm the house, without charcoal. She didn't read the book, and she didn't need Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan to send a message to Gu Qiang, she asked all the way to find it.

Gu Qiang doesn't look like he is a housekeeper, but he is also idle, and he is in the front yard at the moment, shoveling some flower beds in the plain with Ding Jiabao. Qingshu said a few days ago that next year, there will be no flowers in the open space in the front yard, only vegetables. Planting flowers can't be sold for money, and can't be eaten as food. Growing vegetables is different, you don't have to go out to buy all the vegetables, all the vegetables have to wait for the Zhuangzi to deliver. At this point, Qingshu feels that he is vulgar, but doesn't he have to live a vulgar life.

Qing Shu found Gu Qiang, then stood in the courtyard and couldn't wait to ask, "Butler, who in our house can build an earthen kang?" ”

Gu Qiang was surprised and thought for a while, "Zhang Da and Mu Cong." They are natives of the north, and every household in their hometown burns clay kang, and every male in every family has to learn this craft. ”

Qing Shu immediately smiled and bent his eyebrows, "I'm trying to get a clay kang in the house, since the two of them will know, you can find a time to take them to my courtyard to see, what they need, how much they need, let them say the number, and then hurry up and get ready." ”

"Miss, can you live in the earthen kang?" There is no earthen kang in the ancient mansion of the capital, and the masters live in beds. The people who live are not kangs, but wooden planks. To the north of them, only most of the peasant families use clay kangs, while the rich and noble families live in beds and never use clay kangs.

"In the cold winter wax moon, the soil kang is the best. Get one out first, and if it's useful, put it in the house of the lady and the young master. Qing Shu said happily.

"The earthen kang is a good thing, Xiao Gu, remember to build one for me too." Mr. Lu, dressed in a crescent-colored robe, walked out of the house.

Qing Shu was surprised, but he also greeted him generously, "I've seen Mr. Lu." "But, Xiao Gu, this is the ......

Gu Qiang's face changed, "The surname is Lu, if you scream again, I'll gag you." ”

Mr. Lu smiled, "Oh, you don't like it." Cheng, then Xiaoqiang, remember to build one for me. ”

Uh, Xiaoqiang? Qing Shu twitched the corners of his mouth and took a few steps back to the side.

With a whoosh, a fist-sized clod of dirt flew out, passed Mr. Lu's ear, and smashed against the wall.

Mr. Lu still smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Look, look, get angry!" Angry again! Don't be angry, don't be angry, aren't we good brothers? What's more real than a joke? Then he turned his face sideways and looked at Qing Shu with a smile, "Right, Miss Shu?" ”

Qing Shu resisted the urge to roll his eyes, "Butler, Mr. Lu, you guys talk slowly, I still have something to do, go first." After that, quickly smear oil on the soles of their feet, and resolutely not get involved in their "contact feelings" incident full of gunpowder. As she walked, she began to worry, with such a strange master, her brother wouldn't be crooked, would he? Can she not want this master? Can I get a refund?

When Qing Shu walked farther, Gu Qiang stepped forward, grabbed Mr. Lu's collar, and pulled to the side, "Let's go, let's find a quiet place to talk." ”

Inside the door, a curious little head poked out.

"I don't have the energy to concentrate, I don't have enough concentration, and I wrote the article I learned five times today." While being dragged away, Mr. Lu also reprimanded the students in a serious manner and punished them for writing articles silently.

As soon as these words came out, the little head that poked out quickly retracted.

When he arrived at a place where there was no one, Gu Qiang glared, "The surname is Lu, if you teach the young master badly, I, Gu Qiang, will be the first to cut you with a knife." ”

Lu Xuanfang slapped Gu Qiang's hand holding his collar and flicked his clothes, "Okay, I know, you only have these two little ones in your eyes, and you are nagging endlessly every day, are you tired?" ”

Gu Qiang raised his leg and kicked Mr. Lu, "It's been so many years, and it's still not changing." I can't let go of your stinky problem of playing tricks and making fun of people all day long. If you do this again, Miss Careful will quit you. ”

Lu Xuanfang flicked the vague footprints left by Gu Qiang on the robe, and there was still a smile on his face, "Others don't dare, if you change to Miss Shu, you can't say." "A girl who dares to beat people with a stick on the street, what else is there that she doesn't dare.

"If you want to be the young master's master, you don't have to come at all. Since you're here, teach you well, don't be in shape all day long, so that the young lady thinks you have a bad temperament and is tired of you. Mr. Kong is too, knowing your temperament, he still has to recommend you, so Miss has no way to push it, so she can only accept it. ”

Lu Xuanfang stroked his beard, "Don't mention that stinky old man, I was happily playing in the mountains and rivers, and he suddenly went to a letter, saying that if he didn't come to Kangxi Town to teach Gu Qingyang to become a talent, he broke off his friendship with my teacher and student." The dead old man is really well-fed and nosy. ”

Gu Qiang's face darkened and he kicked him again, "That's your mentor." ”

Lu Xuanfang was not happy, "Is there an end?" Don't kick it anymore. Do you know the origin of this robe? ”

When Gu Qiang heard this, he twitched the corners of his mouth and turned around, not wanting to pay attention to him anymore.

Lu Xuanfang didn't have the consciousness of being disliked, so he actually followed step by step, and thought in pieces, "This is the beauty who came to Fengzhou to sew and sent to me personally." Such a loving robe, you must not defile it with your dirty feet again, do you hear? Clothes sewn by the beauties themselves......"

"This beauty in the world is really gentle and affectionate. If it weren't for the dead old man's obstacle, I wouldn't be drinking and writing poems with the beauties of Queensland, alas! How did I come to the door of a dead old man? Why didn't I meet a good gentleman who understood things......"

The green tendons in Gu Qiang's forehead jumped, and the steps under his feet became fast. He has already begun to regret it, he shouldn't have said good things for the surname Lu in front of the young lady, and he got the surname Lu and killed himself.

"Xiao Gu, don't go so fast, wait for the brother......" Lu Xuanfang followed closely behind, continuing to break his thoughts.

When Gu Qiang, who had a forbearant face, and Lu Xuanfang, who was thinking about it, walked away, Qing Shu, who was hiding in the corner behind him and eavesdropping, appeared, speechless for a while. This old Mr. Kong! What kind of master do you recommend? If you recommend it, you can recommend it, and it's okay to recommend a normal master, look at this one, this is really ...... Alas!

On the second day, Qing Shu was sitting in Qingyang's room reading a book, Xu Wuniang hurriedly came to him, and whispered to Qing Shu, "Miss, Gu Wu didn't come himself, but sent his son over to deliver the wedding sticker." Mother Su was talking to the son of the Gu Wu clan at this time, so she sent a slave to inform the young lady. ”

Qing Shu closed the book in his hand, "Happy sticker? Wait a minute, I'd like to see what kind of wedding card it is? ”

After a while, Su's mother took the wedding sticker and came over to see Qing Shu, "Miss, it's Gu Erfeng, the second son of the Gu Wu family, who just came." This Gu Erfeng was sent by the Gu Wu clan to deliver a wedding card. Three days later, Gu Dafeng, the eldest son of the Gu Wu family, wanted to marry and invited his wife and young lady to sit at the table. ”

Qing Shu unfolded the post and glanced at it, and threw it on the table with a snap, "Trick yourself with me, hum." "Xiaojuan, send the post to the kitchen and let Xu Sanniang throw it into the stove pit and burn it."

Xiaojuan said yes and went to the kitchen with the post.

Qing Shu sat quietly for a moment, "Mother Su, go get busy!" ”

As soon as Su's mother went out, Xiaojuan came back to her life.

Qing Shu stood up, "Let's go, go and sit in Madame's yard." "Some people should just bang and knock every once in a while, otherwise it's easy to forget who they are.

Qing Shu arrived at Wenlan Courtyard and didn't see Ding Jiamei come out, so she asked Xiaojuan to push open the door and walked in by herself. There was no one outside, and there was the sound of things rummaging inside. At this time, the people inside heard the noise outside, lifted the curtain and walked out.

"The slave has seen the young lady." Ding Jiamei saw that it was Qingshu and hurried to salute.

"Excuse me, Madame is resting?" Qingshu asked.

"No, Madame is staring at the slave and maid sorting out their winter clothes."

Qing Shu smiled and said, "Yes, I'll go in and take a look." ”

Ding Jiamei hurriedly opened the curtain and invited Qing Shu into the inner room.

Gu Ye was combing her bun, wearing a golden and red gold headband, her face was smeared with rouge, her lips were smeared with a touch of lip grease, and she was sitting in front of the dresser in a pink Chu Jin tunic robe, and she was fiddling with her jewelry box with her head down, indifferent to Qing Shu's arrival.

Looking at the bed again, there were clothes of all kinds of fine silk thrown all over the bed. On the screen, there were a few plain white clothes.

Qing Shu raised his eyebrows, it was rare to see Gu Ye dressed up like this, what's wrong? Could it be that the sun today is coming out of the west? The Gu Ye clan didn't take the female ghost route, but changed to the route of Yunying's unmarried little girl in sixteen or seventeen? As for the peach-colored clothes, she was too embarrassed to wear them out as a little girl of fourteen.

Qing Shu smiled and sat on the chair brought by Ding Jiamei, "You guys go out, you don't need to serve here." The two maids were taken away, "Mother, are you going out?" ”

Gu Ye put a pair of white jade bracelets on his wrists, "Go out in a few days." ”

Qingshu, "Where is Mother going?" Dressed up so brightly. ”

Gu Ye didn't seem to like the word bright very much, and frowned, "In a few days, it will be the day when your fourth aunt's eldest son marries, your father's relatives are not many, and now that the clan encounters such a happy event, my mother will naturally attend." After a pause, "We are from the capital, so naturally we can't lose face, and we must pay attention to everything." You should also prepare early, dress decently, and don't lose your father's face. ”

Qing Shu chuckled, "My father's face, what kind of face does my father have?" Mother, my daughter doesn't know it, my mother has so many good jewelry, jade, gold, silver, so beautiful. ”

Gu Ye slowly turned around, "This is my mother's dowry, don't worry about it." When she said this, she forgot that the dowry that the mother brought from her mother's house was a rule that she should add something to her daughter as a dowry.

Qing Shu then smiled, "Mother's jewelry, my daughter naturally won't worry about it, because my daughter knows that these good things are bought by my father for my mother, and they are my father's thoughts for my mother." She just didn't say it explicitly: her mother's daughter with a thin dowry can't look down on her at a glance.

was ruthlessly exposed to the lie by his daughter, Gu Ye was annoyed, "You ......"

Qingshu said with a smile: "Don't worry, when my mother goes one day, Qingyang and I will watch my mother's baby follow my mother to the ground, and we won't get involved." ”

Gu Ye's face turned pale, "You...... You curse me to death, you brute. ”

Qing Shu plucked out his ears, "Mother, the common feelings of birth, old age, sickness and death, as long as it is a human being, it can't escape death." The mother can't hide, the daughter can't hide, Xiaoyang can't hide much, and no one can hide. Since it is a well-known truth in the world, why does the mother think that this is the daughter who is cursing the mother? ”

The Gu Ye clan was so blocked that they couldn't find a word to refute it.

"Mother, I have heard the mothers of large families say that in this world, there are good things that are left for their children. Mother, what a strange thing they talk about. As a mother, if you have good things, you naturally have to keep them for yourself, so why give them to your children, isn't it strange? ”

Gu Ye's Huo Di turned back to face the bronze mirror, refusing to look at Qing Shu again. She withdrew the jade bracelet in her hand, put it in the jewelry box, and then shook the golden step off her head, as well as the red gold headband, regardless of the beautiful cloud bun scattered. Then she closed the jewelry box, locked it hurriedly, and then, with her head down, picked up the wooden comb, and combed her hair from moment to moment.

Watching Gu Ye do a series of ridiculous actions to protect the baby, Qing Shu almost laughed out loud. She changed her sitting position, "Mother must take care of her baby." In order to feed a large family, the daughter is busy from morning to night every day, and she has to provide her mother with good food and clothing, and she is reluctant to make good clothes and buy good jewelry. The daughter didn't mean to complain about her mother, but suddenly one day, the daughter saw her mother's golden hairpin on the head of an inconsequential woman, and her daughter's heart was cold. Alas, how sad! ”

Gu Ye didn't squeak.

"If my mother doesn't want to live with me and Xiaoyang, since my mother looks up to a woman so much, she can't even give away the golden hairpin that she can't even give her daughter, so it's better for my mother to move over and live with that woman! Mother's belongings, I don't want a copper plate with Xiaoyang. Qing Shu said slowly.

With a snap, Gu Ye slapped the wooden comb heavily on the dresser, "My things, I can send them to whoever I want, don't try to interfere." ”

Qing Shuhuo stood up, forced forward, and pinched Gu Ye's chin, "Look at me." ”

Gu Ye's body shook, "You, what are you going to do?" ”

Qing Shu stared at Gu Ye's fearful eyes with a smile, and his voice was low, "You know what? I want to kick you out of the house. Because, you are a waste, an idiot who eats my flesh and drinks my blood every day, and you are not as good as pigs and dogs who oppose me everywhere. If it weren't for my father's face, do you think I would tolerate you until now? Your stuff? What do you have? The things in this house, including a stitch and a thread, used to be my father's, and later it was Xiaoyang's. And you, nothing? ”

"My ...... Yes...... Dowry ......"

"Stop deceiving yourself, what dowry do you have? What you hold in your hand is all my father's money in exchange. I don't want to starve to death on the streets, be honest with me. No matter how dare you do stupid things behind my back, and no matter how dare you give away Xiaoyang's things without passing through my hands, I don't mind dealing with you like an uncle. You've heard about it, my sister has sued you. Hehe...... My good uncle was beaten with 30 boards, his skin was open, and he was imprisoned for three days. I heard that the prison was full of rats, and at night, rats crawled on the uncle's wound to eat meat and drink blood in search of the smell of blood. Alas! It's miserable. ”

Gu Ye's clan, who was trembling incessantly because of fear, was suddenly stunned when he heard Qing Shu say that the rat crawled on Gu Yunfu's body to eat meat and drink blood.

Qing Shu pouted, it was so easy to faint, it was too unfrightening. She withdrew her hand, took the handkerchief and wiped it again and again, and sat back in the chair where she had been sitting, waiting for the frightened person to wake up. She hadn't finished her sentence yet, and she didn't wait for what to do.

After waiting for more than a quarter of an hour, Gu Ye woke up. When she saw Qing Shu sitting quietly in the room, she was about to scream in fright.

Qing Shu gave her a cold look and immediately succeeded in stopping her.

Qing Shu stood up expressionlessly, "'Marry and obey the husband, and the husband dies from the son', although this sounds unfair, but whether it is fair or not, it depends on who it is." The daughter thinks that marrying and obeying her husband and her husband is dead and obeying her son is very suitable for her mother's temperament. "Marrying and obeying the husband, and the husband and the son are completely created for a woman like Gu Ye who has no ability to make a living.

The daughter was very bored when she saw that her mother had nothing to do every day, so she thought of a way to relieve her mother's boredom. In the future, the mother's four seasons clothes and personal things, the mother can do it herself! With that, Qing Shu took a step, walked out of the inner room unhurriedly, and then passed through the outer room, pushed open the door, and stood in the courtyard, "Xiaojuan, sister." ”

"The slave is here."

"The slave is here."

Ding Jiamei and Xiaojuan agreed and walked in from outside the courtyard.

"Sister, go to Xu Wuniang's side in the afternoon to get the fabric and needlework. From tomorrow onwards, the lady will make her own clothes and personal belongings for the four seasons. Your female popularity is not as good as that of Mrs., and if you listen to Mrs., you must not grab needlework with Mrs. to do it, remember? "If you are idle and panicked, you should arrange a job to do, so that you don't have anything to do and make trouble for her.

"The slave remembers." Ding Jiamei agreed tremblingly, secretly happy for Xu Wuniang in her heart. In this way, Mrs. can no longer find an opportunity to scold Xu Wuniang. It's just that she still has to continue to be picked and scolded.

Qing Shu returned to Qingyang's room, sat for less than a quarter of an hour, secretly scolded himself for being forgetful, and sent Xiaojuan out to ask Su's mother about some things.

Qingshu confessed something, Su's mother didn't want to delay for a moment, and told Xiaojuan what she knew, but in the end she felt that it was not enough, so she pulled Xiaojuan to find Gu Yuanhe.

When Qingshu was about to fall asleep, Xiaojuan finally came back, and she inquired about the things she wanted to inquire about. Qingshu wanted to inquire about no one else, it was the third grandmother of Dagujia Village, the third grandmother who had protected Gu Yuanhe, and the other was the uncle of the general's father

The third grandmother is also married to a man with an ancient surname, and the man is the third oldest in the family. Therefore, when they were young, the clansmen generally called them third brother and third sister-in-law; When they were middle-aged, the clansmen called them third uncles and third aunts; When they are old, the clansmen call them three grandfathers and three grandmothers. That's what they called in the old way, and so did the people with other surnames in the village.

The third grandfather and the third grandmother have a very high status in Dagujia Village, and their words have weight. Because one is good at doing things, and the other is that they are the immediate family of the first patriarch. Although there was no patriarch in Dagujia Village later, Li Zheng and the village chief did not dare to offend the family lightly. It's just that these two old men and Gu Yunhu are not really relatives, they just have the same surname and their ancestors fled here together.

There is another person in Dagujia Village who has a lot of weight, and that is Gu Yunhu's clan uncle Gu Hoe. Gu Hoe is not Gu Yunhu's own uncle, but he has become a clan uncle from the elders. Gu Hoe is a very ordinary person, not outstanding, he borrowed Gu Yunhu's light, and he became a person with weight in the village. While he is ordinary, I heard that he is also afraid of the inside, which is what modern people call afraid of his wife.

When Gu Yuanhe first came to Dagujia Village to guard the general's tomb, the people of Gu Yuanhe's family went to sit on Gu Yuanhe from time to time, and sometimes they would cheekily eat the food prepared by Gu Yuanhe for himself. However, in two years, Gu Hoe's daughter-in-law found that her family could not get any benefits from Gu Yuanhe, so she did not let her family go to Gu Yuanhe anymore.

As the days pass slowly, people's hearts will see clearly. Gu Hoe's family had a job, so he asked Gu Yuanhe to come over to help; And there is work on the side of Gu Yuanhe, and the people of Gu Hoe's family are hiding far away.

The third grandfather and the third grandmother can be people, and the family is too busy to do their work, so they called Gu Yuanhe for help. Gu Yuanhe has something to do, and they don't fall behind. came and went, more intimate than the ancient hoe's house. The daughter-in-law of the ancient hoe quit, and she troubled the third grandmother twice in three days, scolding the third grandmother's family for wanting to take advantage of the ancient mansion and so on. So Gu Yuanhe automatically stayed away from the third grandmother's house, and returned the third grandmother's house to a stop.

Gu Yuanhe was robbed of the field, and the third grandfather who injured his leg and was lying on the kang more than a year ago let his son carry it, and wanted to find Li Zheng to say a few fair words to the village chief, but the daughter-in-law of Gu Hoe went home with a sneer.

Later, when Gu Yuanhe was beaten by the villagers, the people of the Gu hoe family hid, and the sons and adult grandsons of the third grandfather's family were not there, only the granddaughter and two little grandsons were at home, and they couldn't carry him at all, so he sent his own old lady.

Also, Gu Yuanhe said that the third grandmother once told him that when Gu Yunhu married his wife and returned to his hometown to meet his father, he also took Gu Ye's family to the third grandfather and the third grandmother. Gu Yuanhe also said that the third grandmother knew Gu Qingshu's name, and according to the third grandmother, it was Gu Yunhu who went to their house to sit at their house for a long time when he returned to his hometown, and told a lot of fairy tales about his daughter.

Qing Shu finally understood why the third grandmother stood in front of her horse that day and asked her name. It turned out that she just wanted to determine if she was really Gu Yunhu's daughter.

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