Early the next morning, Xiaojuan carried a food basket and walked into the courtyard where Zhou Boyan lived.

When Gu Shishi saw it, he glanced behind Xiao Juan a few times, "Why did you deliver the meal this morning, where did the ingots go?" ”

Xiaojuan first glanced at him, and then asked, "Is Yan Gongzi here?" Where should I put breakfast? ”

Gu Shishi muttered a stinky girl, and while leading the person to the small dining hall, he said, "Childe is naturally here, where can you go hungry?" ”

Xiaojuan raised her voice and said, "Childe, please come out to eat." This morning, the young lady cooked the noodles with her own hands, and the young master said that it was delicious, and specially asked the slave maid to bring a bowl to the son. ”

Gu Shishi was about to count her, but when he heard that the noodles were cooked by Miss Gu, he immediately grinned, turned around, and ran towards Gongzi's house.

When Xiaojuan saw it, she carried the food basket into the dining room. When she saw that the table was clean, and knew that it had been wiped, she lifted the top layer of the basket and took out four small plates of pickles and laid them out. The four pickles are: boiled spiced peanuts, spicy cabbage, shredded kelp with soybean sprouts and pickled shredded radish. She took out a small empty plate and put it on the table, along with a pair of chopsticks. After that, she opened the second layer of the food basket, and the heat and aroma came to her face.

At this time, Zhou Boyan happened to come in.

Xiaojuan took out the noodle bowl, put it on the table, and took the food basket to leave.

Gu Shishi handed a wet cloth towel to Zhou Boyan.

Zhou Boyan cleaned his hands, sat down at the table, and took chopsticks to eat noodles. The noodles in the bowl are finely cut and evenly proportioned, and the texture is firm. The noodles are covered with poached eggs, and the noodle soup is covered with chopped green onions and a few oil stars.

Gu Shishi saw that Gongzi was happy to eat, and he was also happy, and expressed his opinion, "Childe, there is a poached egg on this face, look at it smallly, how does it look like a birthday noodle eaten by a small family on their birthday?" ”

Zhou Boyan didn't raise his head, and quickly solved the poached eggs and noodles, and there was no noodle soup left. He was just about to put down his chopsticks, but Xiaojuan went and returned, still carrying a food basket in her hand.

Xiaojuan saw the ceremony, and while opening the food basket, she explained, "The young lady also made a noodle, and the young master liked it very much, and asked the slave to bring a bowl to the son." She took out a large white porcelain bowl and put it in front of Zhou Boyan, with a pair of clean chopsticks, "Miss said that the top is covered with condiments, and the bottom is the noodles." It's going to be mixed and eaten. She took out a small plate of fried chili foam and put it on the table, "The young lady said, if you want to eat spicy, mix some into the noodles, it tastes better." ”

When Xiaojuan retreated, Gu Shishi leaned over and looked at the bowl, "Childe, this, what is this?" He couldn't see a single noodle, he only saw a small spike in the bowl and something that didn't know what it was.

Zhou Boyan pushed him away, picked some chili foam into the bowl with chopsticks, and then mixed the noodles in the bowl with chopsticks as Qing Shu said. He felt that the mixture was almost done, and he wanted to pick noodles to eat, but because the chopsticks wanted to mix noodles, half of the chopsticks were stained with condiments. So he put down the chopsticks in his hand, took the other pair of clean chopsticks that Xiaojuan had just left on the table, picked a few warm noodles and ate them in his mouth, and realized something.

Gu Shishi smelled the fragrance of noodles, swallowed his saliva, and saw that Gongzi was a little stunned, so he quietly took the pair of chopsticks that Gongzi had discarded, leaned forward little by little, and then stretched the chopsticks into the noodle bowl in front of Gongzi little by little.

Zhou Boyan was annoyed and wanted to kick the stone.

Gu Shishi hurriedly ran away, "Childe, childe, you have eaten a bowl of noodles, this bowl will definitely not be finished, you can reward the small one with the leftovers!" ”

Seeing his gluttonous appearance, Zhou Boyan got angry, left his seat, lifted his back collar, threw him out of the door, and closed the door with a "bang". After that, sit back and bury your head in the noodles.

At the other end, Qingshu's courtyard. Qingyang and Hao ate hard, but they refused to put down their chopsticks and continued to mix noodles and eat. Qing Shu noticed it, tapped the heads of the two of them one by one, and scolded with a smile, "Two little fools, don't eat anymore, put down the chopsticks quickly." ”

Qingyang raised his head and reluctantly put down his chopsticks, and the corners of his mouth were actually stained with the fried sauce of mixed noodles.

Hao's chopsticks were not very reluctant, and when he looked up, his mouth was also stained with the sauce of mixed noodles.

Qing Shu was about to say that the two of them ate like a little flower cat, but when he heard that they were like a game, they hiccuped one after another. Qing Shu cried and laughed and told Xiaoyu to hurry up and bring a wet cloth towel.

When the well-fed people went to Qingshu's house, Qingyang fell on the kang and refused to get up. He lay on his back, squinting his eyes and touching his stomach, looking lethargic.

Hao also thought of lying on the kang, he glanced at Qingshu several times, and saw that Qingshu was just smiling, so he had the courage to take off his shoes and go to the kang, and lay down next to Qingyang.

Although Qing Shu thought their appearance was funny, he was still worried in his heart, "Speak if your stomach hurts." ”

The two of them were busy saying that it didn't hurt, and they couldn't get up on the kang.

Qing Shu sat next to them and guarded them, and ordered a few small fish who had been busy all morning, "There is still fried meat sauce, you cook the noodles yourself and eat them, you don't have to wait here." ”

After listening to the order, Xiaojuan ran the fastest. The sauce used to mix noodles is fried with soybean sauce, and the egg whites of lean meat, sun-dried mushrooms, sun-dried green vegetable leaves, and salted duck eggs are added, of course, these ingredients are processed and chopped.

At noon, Qingshu personally cooked, made a table of dishes, and sent them to Qingyang's courtyard, so that Qingyang invited Zhou Boyan and Hao over to eat.

Because Qing Shu didn't mention it to anyone, except for Zhou Boyan, no one knew that Qing Shu was celebrating Zhou Boyan's birthday in advance.

All day long, Zhou Boyan had a faint smile on his face, and his mood was unprecedentedly good. Gu Shishi felt that something was wrong, he always felt that the son was abnormally powerful, so he couldn't sit still all day.

In a blink of an eye, it was the second day, and everyone had breakfast, and they were unhurriedly preparing for the departure. Speaking of preparations, in fact, the preparations were done two days ago. Now that they got on the carriage and horse, Steward Gu and Mother Su personally checked all aspects, and then they replied to Qing Shu, saying that they could go.

In this way, Qing Shu watched Qingyang and Hao sit in the carriage and leave under the escort of Zhou Boyan. accompanied by Mr. Lu's family. Mr. Lu is now a family and a family, and this time he went with him, he specially took Lu Niangzi and Shengge to see the lights.

Qing Shu returned to his residence, thinking that he would not see his brother for a few days, and his heart was a little empty. She spun around on the ground, and suddenly felt that there was nothing to do, so she wanted to be a female celebrity to pass the time. As soon as I took out the needlework basket, I thought of the rule that I couldn't take needles, scissors and other sharp things, so I had to give up and put the needlework away.

She sat bored on the kang for a while, always feeling as if something was missing in her heart. She laughed at herself for not being normal, and then prepared to rummage through the cabinets to pass the time. I don't want to, I'm going to pass the word ahead, and Gu Li is visiting. She put back the few bags she had just turned over, and said in her heart that this ancient glass had come too often. Since the first day of the first month, to today's fourteenth, but more than ten days of work, Guli has come five times. When she said yes, she closed the door of the inner room and went out, ready to meet the guests outside.

Xiaoyu quickly placed melon seeds and fruits on the table, Xiaojuan took the teacup over, and the little girl went to see the water sitting on the stove like an adult.

Gu Li came in with a maid eyebrows. Qing Shu shouted to sister, please sit with Gu Li.

Gu Li's face was not very good, and he looked sad. She drank half a cup of hot tea, was silent for a moment, and suddenly burst into tears in silence.

Qing Shu was taken aback, "Sister Li, what's wrong with you?" Why did you cry all of a sudden? ”

Gu Li turned his face sideways, wiped his tears with a handkerchief, and only then faced Qing Shu after stabilizing his feelings, and said softly, "Sister, my sister is very afraid." ”

Qing Shu was suspicious in his heart, Gu Li's expression today was very different from usual, "Afraid, afraid of what?" ”

Gu Li glanced at Xiao Yu and Xiao Juan, who were waiting in front of him, and looked like he wanted to say something.

Qing Shu thought to herself: This is finally going to the theme! She turned her face sideways and said to Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan, "You two, take the Mei'er girl to look around." ”

Xiao Yu and Xiao Juan agreed, and took out the maid called Mei'er by Gu Li's side.

Only their two cousins were left in the room. Gu Li sighed lightly and said softly, "Don't hide it from my sister, my father and mother will be stiff, not for anything else, just for my marriage." ”

Qing Shuxin said: Sure enough, it's time to go to the theme. But his face was not obvious, and he asked with a look of surprise, "For my sister's marriage?" ”

Gu Li looked sad, "Yes." A lot of things happened, and my father couldn't stay in Beijing, so he planned to sell his property and return to his ancestral hometown. My mother was not very willing, because of my marriage contract. ”

Qing Shu was surprised, this was really surprised, "My sister has already made a marriage?" ”

"It was originally a marriage, and the family's surname was Huang, and they said that they would marry me at the end of last year. My mother thought that if I married into the Yellow Mansion, I would have to stay in Beijing, and I couldn't follow my father and mother back to my ancestral hometown. There is no mother's family around here, and there is no one to rely on to be bullied. Because of this, my mother is reluctant to leave Beijing. It's just that because the situation at home has deteriorated, the Huang family looks down on me, saying that I am not worthy of the Huang family's man, and the Huang family withdrew from the marriage. At this, her eyes turned red, and she lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

Qing Shu didn't speak, because she didn't know what to say properly.

"I, although I am sad, but when I think about it, the other party is this kind of person, fortunately, I didn't get married, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, my father, my father, he would promise me to be a concubine to a sixty-year-old man. Mother...... My mother and eldest brother objected and quarreled with my father. I never thought that my father pushed my mother down, and my mother lay on the bed for more than ten days. When the debt collection came to the door every day, my father always beat my idea, and my mother turned out the silver hidden by my father in a fit of anger and handed it over to the creditor along with the deed. Daddy gave up on this, dismissed some of the people in the house, and brought us back to our ancestral hometown. Speaking of this, her head hung low, and her voice was lowered, "Along the way, my mother said that when I arrived in Kangxi Town, I would buy a small house, and the whole family would squeeze in, and life would be better." Dad refused, he had to come to his sister's place. For this reason, the two quarreled all the way. ”

Qing Shu just listened, his expression was faint, and he couldn't see joy or anger.

Gu Li didn't dare to look up, "That day, I'm sorry." ”

Qing Shu had to speak, "That day, I didn't show mercy to my subordinates, you don't have to feel sorry." ”

After being quiet for a moment, Gu Li said again, "My sister must be very puzzled, why my sister doesn't stay at home with my mother, but she comes to my sister's side twice in three days, and she sits for half a day." Without waiting for Qing Shu to say anything, she sighed, "I'm not here for anything else, just to avoid trouble." Dad, my dad plans to marry me to Dexian here, to give a sick and weak Wu Gongzi Chongxi. ”

Qing Shu blinked, "Dexian? Sick and weak Wu Gongzi? As far as she knew, Wu Gongzi, who was sick and weak in Dexian County, was the only one, and he didn't want anything else all day long, so he thought about relying on Chongxi to cure his strange disease.

Gu Li nodded slightly, "I heard that the Wu Mansion promised to give a dowry of five hundred taels of silver, plus a shop." There is just one condition. She glanced at Qing Shu apologetically and said, "When I get married, I have to bring my sister over as a dowry girl." ”

Qing Shu's hand on her side clenched into a fist, but she immediately let go of her fist again, and asked in a cold voice, "Should your father go down?" "She has filial piety and can't get married, so Wu Fu played such a trick. Marry Gu Li in the past, and then ask Gu Yunfu to send her to Wu Mansion in the name of the maid.

Wu Mansion is good at playing, Gu hoe, Gu Yunfu, and the Song family are actually three-pronged. Wu Fu must have thought that with the help of the three sides, one of them will always succeed! She had already cleaned up the ancient hoe, and she already knew the tricks that the Song Mansion was playing in Beijing, but she couldn't guess Gu Yunfu's plan. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be such an idea.

Gu Li nodded slightly, "Because of this, my mother decided to take us to separate from my father." She bit her lip, "My sister may not remember, when I was a child, when we first arrived in Beijing, my eldest brother liked to take my sister to play the most." It's just that the second uncle is gone, and my father has been ...... for many years, and the eldest brother has been refusing to talk to his father. "Yesterday, my father went to our side and asked me to get married. Mother drove away Dad. The eldest brother and the second brother went to their father's side and knelt all night, hoping that their father would change his mind. "My mother cried all night, went to my father's side early in the morning, and called the eldest brother and second brother back." "My mother asked me to take refuge on my sister's side, but my mother said that my father is not my sister's opponent." She said these things in fits and starts.

Qing Shu exhausted the true feelings in his eyes, and asked with a flat face, "Your father didn't say when he wanted you to get married?" ”

"The eighth day of February." Gu Li replied worriedly.

Qing Shu looked at her and asked, "Why are you telling me this?" ”

Gu Li's expression was a little evasive, and there was a hint of shame, "I...... I don't want to marry a sick seedling, and I don't want to be a widow for the rest of my life. I don't know if my sister will help me, I just, I just don't want to miss any chance to get out. ”

Qing Shu stopped talking, stared at a certain point in the room, and sat silently.

Gu Li was very nervous, and wrung the handkerchief in his hand from time to time. After being silent for a long time, she couldn't stand this dull and silent atmosphere, lowered her head, and wept silently.

Qing Shu glanced at her, and the look of unhappiness disappeared in a flash. If crying solves the problem, everyone doesn't have to do anything else, they can all sit and cry. It's just that what the Ma family is up to in mind is that they actually sent their daughter over and showed her Gu Yunfu's hole cards.