Out of the city gate, I saw a carriage decorated with plain linen and white silk speeding towards the funeral procession from a distance.

The carriage stopped in front of the funeral procession, and the coachman helped down a white and chubby boy and a small girl. Before they could stand firm, a lady who was dressed in filial piety and cried and grabbed the ground came out of the carriage.

Chu Qingruo sobbed and looked at this lady, who was about a few years older than her father, skinny, with high cheekbones on her sallow face. A pair of slender eyes were half-covered by a handkerchief, and there was no look to be seen.

The lady got out of the carriage, picked up the two children from the left and the right, and hurried to the old lady's coffin. He pressed the figures of the two children and whispered, "Kneel down and kowtow to your grandmother." ”

Then he threw himself on the coffin and cried: "Oh, my mother...... Why did you just go...... My mother...... Your daughter is back to see you...... Why did you leave your daughter like this! ”

The person who came was Chu Qingruo's aunt, Chu Wenxuan's eldest sister, Chu Wenhong and her children.

Mother Yan saw that the eldest aunt and grandmother were back, and hurriedly went up to comfort: "Auntie and Grandma's Day mourning is changing, since my aunt and grandmother are back, let's follow the funeral together." If you have something to say, you will be talking to the old lady carefully when you arrive at the place, so don't delay the time of the old lady's burial now. ”

When the eldest aunt and grandmother heard this, they immediately put away their tears, took a pair of children and pouted, and walked to Chu Qingruo's side.

Because she cried so hard, there was no one to comfort her.

The funeral procession arrived at the ancestral cemetery of Chu Mansion, an old monk finished chanting, the old lady's coffin was put down in the cemetery, and several family members covered the cemetery with soil and erected a tombstone.

A group of people stepped forward to cry and wail again, especially the aunt and grandmother who had just arrived, who cried very loudly.

Chu Qingruo was silently crying, thinking of his grandmother's loving voice in the past, sadness welled up in his heart again.

After the funeral, on the way back, Chu Wenxuan got into the carriage of his aunt and grandmother and asked her: "Why did the eldest sister only arrive today, the family letter should have been sent to you a long time ago?" ”

The eldest aunt and grandmother looked slightly embarrassed and seemed to be a little embarrassed. After a pause, he pulled up a pair of children on the left and right and said, "Brother Dong, Sister Ju, call uncle!" ”

The two children called their uncle sweetly. Chu Wenxuan couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in his heart when he saw two well-behaved children who were as well-behaved as pink. He took out a few dimes of silver from his sleeve and gave it to the two children: "Good, take it and buy sweet mouths to eat." ”

The eldest aunt and grandmother successfully diverted the topic and asked him: "Mother was really killed by Cao Xiulian's slut?" ”

Chu Wenxuan was embarrassed by the question, and said fiercely: "I asked myself that I am not thin on their mother and son, I didn't expect this poisonous woman to be so kind and revenge!" If I see her again, I will never spare her! ”

The aunt and grandmother rolled their eyes, and asked with concern: "Then have you ever written a letter of resignation?" ”

He shook his head: "My mother died suddenly, and the whole house was in a hurry, and I didn't care about it. ”

"Brother, you are confused. If you don't drive out of Chu Mansion quickly with such a woman, you still keep her to do something! ”

The eldest aunt and grandmother hated that iron could not be made of steel, and Chu Wenxuan lifted the curtain to look at Chu Qingruo outside the carriage, put down the curtain and said:

"If there is no one in charge of this big Chu Mansion, it is really enough to make you feel bad. But don't worry, my brother, now that the big sister is back, I will help you prop up this home, and you can't mess up in the backyard! ”

Chu Wenxuan was moved for a while, and said in a choked voice: "It's a shame that the eldest sister is back, and the younger brother is also incompetent, so he still has to bother the eldest sister to bother me so much." ”

The eldest aunt wiped her eyes that didn't have too many tears: "Who told me to be a big sister, the eldest sister is like a mother!" Don't talk about that. ”

Chu Wenxuan replied repeatedly: "That's, that's." ”

The eldest aunt and grandmother asked again, "I heard that Sister Ruo'er is back?" was also given a marriage to General Fu Shao? ”

Chu Wenxuan was very embarrassed: "Hmm! The marriage of the royal gift, I can't be her master, don't mention it! ”

When the eldest aunt and grandmother heard this, she stopped talking, took her daughter's hand, and her eyes rolled.

The red-eyed Mother Zhou helped Chu Qingruo, who was crying exhausted, and walked beside the grandmother's carriage, with a slightly nasal voice, Chu Qingruo quietly asked her: "Why did a grandmother suddenly come?" I've never heard my grandmother mention it, huh? Zhou's mother also said she didn't know.

The two invited Yan's mother together, and whispered about the aunt and grandmother while hurrying.

Yan's mother is an old woman in the old lady's room, and she knows this aunt and grandmother.

This aunt's grandmother's name is Chu Wenhong, and she was the old lady's first child.

Because the old lady had just married into the Chu Mansion not long ago, she was busy guarding against the guns and arrows in the backyard, the calculations of her aunts and wives, and the housework of the Chu family, so she really had no time to take care of the child herself.

entrusted her to the nurse in the room to take care of her. I thought that I would wait for the house to be more stable and then take over and discipline Chu Wenhong by myself, but I was pregnant again in my stomach.

Just let that nurse bring Chu Wenhong to the age of four or five. When the old lady freed her hand and took the child over to raise herself, she found that the child had already called the nurse to raise her.

The nurse had to take her own children on one end and Chu Wenhong on the other, and she was often upset by the two children's quarrels. Chu Wenhong is young lady, she can't beat or scold, but the child is extremely irritating when she makes trouble. In order not to let the child cry, the nurse chose the easiest way: follow her!

She will give her whatever she wants, as long as she can stop crying. gradually developed Chu Wenhong's brutal temperament, and whenever something didn't go his way, he would make a big noise. When Chu Wenhong is older and can walk, she needs someone to play with her.

Originally, the children of the family were in this grade to make rules and teach her the best time to behave in the world. Through the game, teach her slowly and little by little. In this way, when the child grows up, there will be a rule for dealing with others.

The nurse is illiterate, and she doesn't understand these particulars. It's just like her own child, running around all over the ground by her, as long as she eats and sleeps well, dresses warmly and doesn't get sick, and grows up one year after another, she will naturally understand some truths.

As everyone knows, all children in the world are born to do things according to their own preferences, and there are no rules at all. Those rules, the way of behaving in the world, all need to be taught by adults little by little with patience and heart.

Of course, even if adults don't teach, children will learn by themselves in other ways or places, but whether what they learn is good or bad, it is not within the scope of what adults can predict. When adults find out that their children have learned bad habits or bad temperaments, and want to change them, they are afraid that it will be too late.

is like Chu Wenhong, pestering the nurse to play all day long. The nurse was entangled, and she was afraid that she would cry, so she took out a pai gow sieve to tease the child. Although he coaxed the child to be happy, he also inadvertently cultivated Chu Wenhong's gambling nature.

After the old lady took Chu Wenhong back to educate, she found that this child couldn't read and write, and he couldn't etiquette.

Although he scolded the nurse severely, and then sent her to buy her. But it still doesn't help, five-year-old Chu Wenhong is already like that.

I can only ask Mama Xi to teach again. In order to correct many of her bad habits, Chu Wenhong suffered a lot from her grandmother's board. So much so that the eldest aunt still has a grudge against her mother, and believes that the old lady is partial to her younger brother Chu Wenxuan.

I have taught and taught, and I have beaten and beaten, and I finally can take it on the surface. When she reached the age of going to a private school, Chu Wenhong finally had the opportunity to walk out of the Chu Mansion and walk outside the mansion. Who knew that there was such an interesting place as a gambling house in this world, so she skipped class all day long and went to the gambling house to play.

In a place like the gambling house, there are nine frauds out of ten, don't say that you are a little girl who is not in time to go in, even if it is a shrewd monkey adult, it is inevitable that you will lose everything.

At the beginning, Chu Wenhong secretly lost all his monthly silver this month and didn't dare to go again, just counting the days with his eyes, and then going to the gambling house to turn over the book after the monthly silver was issued.

So what is a gambling house?

It's all a place where people who don't learn well get together! Slowly, a familiar gambler gave her an idea, and she lost all the moonsilver, isn't there still jewelry? If you don't have any money, take it out and redeem it when you win!

So Chu Wenhong slowly began to steal things from the family, from his own jewelry to the old lady's jewelry, and finally lost a lot one day, and actually stole the title deed of a property in the family and pawned it, and also lost a clean one.

When the debt collector came to the house with the title deed to ask for the debt, the old lady fainted on the spot in anger. woke up and endured the discomfort to repay the debt for this wrongdoer, tied her to the ancestral hall, knelt in front of the ancestral tablet, and asked the family law to beat her so hard that she couldn't get out of bed for two months.

Even this kind of discipline failed to make her remember it for a long time, but she hated the old lady more and more.

In a blink of an eye, it is the age of marriage, and the old lady knows her daughter's temperament, so she will find her an honest family with a solid family, I am afraid that she will not be able to suppress her, and sooner or later she will be called a disaster.

The old lady was ruthless, and found her a housekeeper in the neighboring Pingzhou County, who was quite powerful, and her son was an errand boy in the barracks and knew how to punch and kick. I originally thought that such a family, as long as she was virtuous enough and no longer contaminated with gambling money, she would be able to live a small life without worrying about food and clothing.

And the other party's family was born in the march, she is a rough person, she will not be disliked by others when she marries, and she has no rules, compared to those high-ranking families, it is also suitable for her. She has also seen the children of the man's family, who does not gamble or prostitute, is honest and honest, and has a good appearance.

When Chu Wenhong got married, the old lady accompanied a few boxes of dowries and a few shops, but she didn't hand them over to her, and directly gave them to her mother-in-law.

That Chu Wenhong had just been married for a few years, but she had been peaceful for a few years and gave birth to a pair of children. The son is okay, smart and clever.